Byzantine Timeline project

History of the Byzantines

Period: 300 to Feb 8, 1500

Emperor Constantine I founded the Byzantine Capital

330

The origins of the great civilization known as the Byzantine Empire was created, when the Roman emperor Constantine I dedicated a “new Rome” on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium. Located on the European side of the Bosporus, the site of Byzantium was ideally located to serve as a transit and trade point between Europe and Asia Minor.

General Belisarius military Campaigns

527

Belarus was often regarded as one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire. Belarus was first able to prove his worthiness when he was appointed by Justinian to command the army of the east to deal with the Incursions from the Byzantine emperors great rival, the Sassanians.

Nika revolt

532

Nika revolt, was a revolt against Emperor Justinian I that took place over the course of a week in Constantinople. The most popular entertainments offered by the circuses of Rome were the gladiators and chariot racing, the latter often as deadly as the former.

Hagia Sophia Completed

532

The Hagia Sophia, whose name means “holy wisdom,” is a domed monument originally built as a cathedral in Constantinople.
It contains two floors centered on a giant nave that has a great dome ceiling, along with smaller domes, towering above.

Early islamic military campaigns into Byzantine territory

Feb 8, 780

Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid & Fatimid caliphates fought a series of wars for supremacy in the Eastern Mediterranean. After a period of indecisive and slow border warfare, a string of almost unbroken Byzantine victories in the late 10th and early 11th centuries allowed three Byzantine Emperors, Nikephoros II Phocas, John I Tzimiskes and Basil II to recapture territory lost to the Muslim conquests in the 7th century.

Emperor basil II military conquests of Bulgaria

Feb 8, 976

The rain of Basil II, was known to be one of the outstanding Byzantine emperors. The military conquest was a series of conflicts between the Bulgarian empire and the Byzantine empire that then led to the reestablishment of the balkan peninsula.

Great Schism

Feb 8, 1054

The great Schism, was the event that divided "Chalcedonian" Christianity into Western (Roman) Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The primary causes of the Schism were disputes over papal authority.

emperor Alexios contacts Pope Urban II for military help in middle east

Feb 7, 1095

Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle ages, giving rise to crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim Holy land with a cry of "god wills it".

Fourth Crusade ( attack on Constantinople)

Feb 7, 1204

The armies of the Fourth Crusade broke into the city Constantinople and began to loot, pillage, and slaughter there way across the greatest metropolis in the christian wold.

Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks

Feb 8, 1453

The siege of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire and most heavily fortified cities in the world. The Turks employed various important war tactics in taking over the city. The city was complete;y taken over by the Turks and officially claimed for Islam.