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Period: 300 to Jan 1, 1500
Byzantines timeline
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Constantine capital
Constantine made the capital of the Roman Empire named Constantinople. He renamed it from its original name of the Greek city Byzantium. -
532
General Belisarius military campaigns
General Belisarius first enlisted in the army under the Byzantine emperor Justin I and upon the emperors death he was awarded full command of the army. He put down the Nika uprising in Constantinople and slaughtered between 20-30,000 people. In 562 he was accused of cure option and sent to prison. He was saved by Justinian in court however, though he ended up dying in 565. -
532
Nika revolt
Took place over the course of a week in Constantinople. It was a very violent riot, actually the most violent ever in the history of Constantinople. Almost half of the city got destroyed or burned by people. Also tens of thousands of people were killed in the riots. -
Jan 1, 636
Early Islamic military
Battle of Yarmouk was a large battle between the Byzantines and the Muslim Arab forces of the rashidun caliphate. It lasted 6 days and was a complete Muslim victory. This ended Byzantine rule in Syria. -
Jan 1, 1054
Great schism
The final separation between the eastern Christian churches and the western church. The ideas of the east were different than the west. The eastern theology focused on Greek philosophy and the western was focused on Roman law. -
Jan 1, 1095
Emperor Alexios contacts pope urban II
The first crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to capture the holy lands. Pope urban made a great speech that inspired people to fight to free Jerusalem from the rule of the Fatimids. It took them 2 years to reach Jerusalem. -
Jan 1, 1204
Fourth crusade
The fourth crusade was a Western European armed expedition odigannaly intended to conquer Muslim controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. -
Jan 1, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
The fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of he eastern Roman Empire. He ottomans were commanded by 21-year old ottoman sultan mehmed, who defeated the army that was commanded by the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI palaiologos. The fall of Constantinople symbolized the end of the Roman Empire. The ottomans also threatened Christianity as they advanced into Europe. -
Jan 1, 1478
Haggai Sophia
The church of haggis Sophia on Constantinople, which is now called Istanbul, was first dedicated in 360 by emperor Constantius. It was a Christian patriarchal basilica, an imperial mosque, and in present day, it is a museum. -
Emperor Basil II's conquests of Bulgaria
From 970-1018, a series of conflicts between the Byzantine and Bulgarian empires led to the gradual conquest of Bulgaria by the Byzantines. He was nicknamed the bulgar slayer. His innitial efforts of trying to take over Bulgaria were failures. In 990 he attempted again lasting 25 years. Finally in 1014 the Byzantines captured the main Bulgarian army of about 14,000 men.
