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Period: 300 to 1500
The Byzantine Empie
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324
Constantine I founded the capital of Byzantine
Constantine founded the capital of Byzantine named Constantinople previously named Byzantium -
532
The Nika Riots
The most violent riots in Constantinople thousands were killed and it destroyed half the city -
534
General Belisarius Military Campaigns
Military campaigns that took back most of the land that had been lost from the romans North Africa Italy and the Iberian peninsula -
537
Hagia Sophia is built
Hagia Sophia a giant church built to restore beauty to the city was finished with construction -
1018
Emperor Basil II military conquests of Bulgaria
Military conquest to take control of Bulgaria and control the Balkan Peninsula -
1054
The great schism
The break of two different religions the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox church -
1095
Emperor alexios I askes pope urban II for military support in the middle east
Emperor alexios askes pope urban II to help him fight the Turks in Asia Minor also hoping to be peaceful between the two churches -
Period: 1202 to 1204
The Fourth Crusade
Was originally going to go reclaim land by going through Egypt but ended up invading and stealing stuff from Constantinople -
1453
The End of the Byzantine empire
The Byzantine empire gets captured by the ottomans and the emperor dies in battle ending the Byzantine empire
