Rome Timeline

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  • 324

    Byzantium and Western Roman Empire (span) C.E. 130–475

    Roman Emperor of East defeated by Roman Emperor of the West, Constantine; Byzantium renamed Constantinople and built up from Constantine.
  • 476

    Byzantine Empire (span) C.E. 476–866

    Constantinople considered capital of Byzantine Empire after Rome falls.

  • Byzantium and Western Roman Empire (span) C.E. 130–475

    Byzantium named by Roman Emperor Diocletian as a new center of Roman
    Empire with power split between Rome (West) and Byzantium (East)