624 AD–653 AD
Tang Code and administrative procedures
Law & constitutions · Codificación, procedimientos y administración
The Tang Code was promulgated in 624, and its annotated 653 version is the earliest surviving complete Chinese code. It integrated penalties, statutes, and administrative rules, but its text alone cannot establish identical application across the Tang empire.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
- afe.easia.columbia.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 1999
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
The correspondence between this reference and individual claims has not yet been itemized.
This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.