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Period: 300 to Sep 15, 1500
Byzantine
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330
Emperor Constantin I Founded the Byzantine Capital
Byzantium took on the name of Konstantinoupolis after its foundation under the Roman Emperor Constantinel, who transferred the imperial capital from its historic base, Rome to Byzantium in 330 AD and made his new capital officially Nova Rome or New Rome. -
532
Nika Revolt(riots)
The Nika Revolts or Nika Riots, took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in AD 532, it was the most violent riot in history if Constantinople. With nearly half the city being burne/destroyed and tens of thousands of people kille. -
533
General Belisarius Military Campaigns
(533-562) For his efforts, Belisarius was rewarded by Justinian with the command of land and sea expedition against the Vandal Kingdom, mounted in 533-534. In 535 Justinian commissioned Belisarius to attack the Ostrogoth Kingdom in Italy.Captured Naples in November and Rome in December 536. In 537-538 he successfully defended Rome against the Goths and moved North to take the Ostrogoth capital in 540.In 562, Belisarius stood a trial in Constantinople on charge of corruption. -
Sep 15, 622
Early Islamic Military
(622-750) The early Muslim conquest also known as the Arab conquests and Early Islamic conquests began with the Islamic Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. He established a new unified polity in Arabian Peninsula which under the subsequent Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates saw a century of rapid expansion. -
Sep 15, 1018
Emperor Basil II
From 970 until 1018, a series of conflicts between the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire led to the gradual conquest of Bulgaria by the Byzantines. Byzantine army ordered by Basil II at the Gates of Trajan and retaking north-eastern Bulgaria. -
Sep 15, 1054
Great Schism
Also known as the East-West Schism or Schism of 1054, was the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches. Which has lasted since the 11th century. -
Sep 15, 1095
Emperor Alexios I contacts Pope Urban II
When the Turks then threatened to invade the Byzantine Empire and take their greatest city Constantinople, the Emperor Alexius I made a special plan for Urban to help. Wanting to reinforce the power of the papacy. Urban declined the opportunity to Unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the Holy Land from the Turks. -
Sep 15, 1204
Fourth Crusade
In 1204, the armies of the Fourth Crusade made their way into Constantinople and started their attack by slaughtering, looting, and pillaging while making their way across the greatest metropolis in the Christian world. After months, Pope Innocent III, who called upon the Crusade, bitterly said the spilling "blood on Christian swords that should have used on pagans". And described the expedition as "an example of afflicition and the works of Hell". -
Sep 15, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Greco-Roman Empire by an invading army of the ottoman Empire in 1453. The Ottomans were ordered by the then 21 year old Mehmed the Conqueror, who defeated an army ordered by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. The conquest of Constantinople followed a 53 day siege. -
Hagia Sophia
From 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Orthodox cathedral of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire of Constantinople. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931.
