Zhu launches a major attack on Liu…

The Magyars twice ravage Saxony in 906.

The Magyars have begun raiding in all directions from their new base in the Carpathian Basin, overwhelming the Moravian kingdom in 906.

The Qarmatians, withdrawing into Arabia in 906, establish an independent Muslim state on the western shore of the Persian Gulf (near present Bahrain).

The caliphate soon subjugates those Qarmatians that had elected to remain in Syria.

Palestine during the insurrection of 903 to 906 has experienced the destructive operations of the Qarmatians.

Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz, and Solomon III, Bishop of Constance, the most influential of Louis's councilors, assure that the royal court decides in favor of the Conradines against the Babenbergers in the matter of the Duchy of Franconia.

They appoint Louis's nephew, Conrad, as duke.

Hatto I has assisted the Franconian family of the Conradines in its feud with the Babenbergs for supremacy in Franconia; after the battle of Fritzlar in 906 between the Babenbergs and Conradines, he arranges for the capture and execution of Adalbert, count of Babenberg, breaking his promise of safe conduct.

The Annamese, or residents of the Chinese-controlled region of Annam (“Pacified South,” a name that the native peoples resent), granted in 906 the right to select their own governor in the anarchy that ensues after the collapse of the Tang dynasty, begin skirmishing with the Chinese of Guangdong province to the north.

Zhu Quanzhong forces Emperor Ai to yield the throne to him in summer 907, ending the Tang Dynasty.

He establishes a new Later Liang Dynasty (as its Emperor Taizu).

Most Tang military governors at least nominally submit to him as emperor, with a few exceptions—Li Keyong, Yang Xingmi's son and successor Yang Wo (titled the Prince of Hongnong), Wang Jian (titled the Prince of Shu), and Li Maozhen (titled the Prince of Qi), all of whom initially continue to use the Tang era names to show refusal to submit to Later Liang.

(Wang, however, soon declares himself emperor of a new state of Shu (commonly known as Former Shu)).

In reality, Li Keyong's state of Jin is now an independent state, although when Wang writes him and suggests that he assume imperial title as well, he refuses, claiming continued loyalty to Tang.

Later in the year, he meets at Yun Prefecture with Yelü Abaoji, the ruler of the Khitan, and tries to enlist Yelü's aid in an alliance against Later Liang.

Yelü initially agrees, but later enters into relations with Later Liang.

Wang, able to expand his holdings into eastern Sichuan, takes the title of emperor as the Tang fall in 907.

The Great Shu, called in retrospect Former Shu, has its capital at Chengdu and controls most of present-day Sichuan, parts of southern Gansu and Shaanxi, part of western Hubei and all of contemporary Chongqing.

Not only dioes it border the Later Liang Dynasty, the successor to the Tang Dynasty in the north, but it also borders the Chinese kingdoms of Nanping and Chu and the non-Chinese peoples to the south (formerly Nanzhao and soon to be the Kingdom of Dali and Amdo Tibet).

The Qian family had been providing military leaders to the Tang Dynasty beginning in 887.

Qian Liu had been named Prince of Yue in 902, with the title of Prince of Wu added two years later.

When the Tang Dynasty falls in 907 and is replaced in the north by the Later Liang Dynasty, military leaders in the south form their own kingdoms.

Qian Liu uses his position to proclaim himself the King of Wuyue.

This signals the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which will last until the founding of the Song Dynasty in 960.