History of the Byzantine

By liban gele
  • Period: 300 to Jan 1, 1500

    Byzantine Timeline

  • 532

    nika revolt [ riots]

    took place against Emperor Justinian I, They were the most violent riots in the city's history, with nearly half Constantinople being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.
  • 534

    General belisarius military campaigns

    he was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire.
  • 537

    hagia sophia completed

    Hagia sophia is the church dedicated to the Holy Wisdom which was rebuilt by Emperor Justinian in 537 is both the most imposing monument of the Byzantine Empire and a summary of its history.
  • Jan 1, 622

    Early islamic military campaigns into byzantine territory

    The early Muslim referred to as the Arab conquests and early Islamic conquests began with the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 7th century.
  • 968

    Emperor basil II military conquests of bulgaria

    byzantine empire led gradual conquest of Bulgaria by the Byzantines, who then re-established their control over the entire Balkan peninsula for the first time since the 7th-century Slavic invasions.
  • Nov 27, 1095

    emperor Alexios I contacts pope urban II

    On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land
  • Aug 1, 1203

    fourth crusade ( attack on Constantinople]

    the siege and sack of Constantinople occurred in April 1204 and marked the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. Mutinous Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire
  • Jan 1, 1378

    Great Schism

    the event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius and the Western church.
  • May 29, 1453

    fall of constantinople to the ottoman turks (official end to byzantines]

    the Byzantine Empire had long been in decline, but it remained an important bastion of Christian Europe facing Muslim Asia. The Ottoman Turks, however, had extended their territories to include the Balkans as well as Anatolia
  • May 29, 1453

    Emperor constantine I founded the byzantine capital

    Constantinople was famed for its massive and complex defences. Although besieged on numerous occasions by various peoples, the deference of Constantinople proved invulnerable for nearly nine hundred years before the city was taken in 1204 by the Crusader armies