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Nov 27, 1095
Emperor Alexius i contacts Pope Urban ii military help in Middle East
Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech and the middle ages giving rise to the Crusades by calling all the Christians in Eastern to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land with the cry of Deus vult or god will it -
Jun 23, 1203
Fourth Crusade
Was a Western European armed expedition called by the Pope Innocent originally intended to conquer Muslim controlled Jerusalem -
May 29, 1453
fall of constantinople to the ottoman turks
Was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire. -
General Belisarius Military Campaigns
. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously. -
Emperor Basil II military conquests of Bulgaria
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, who thus re-established their control over the entire Balkan peninsula for the first time since the 7th-century Slavic invasions. -
emperor basil ii military conquests of bulgaria
Samuel proved to be a successful general inflicting a major defeat on the Byzantine army commanded by Basil II at the Gates of Trajan and retaking north-eastern Bulgaria. ... In 997 Samuel was proclaimed Emperor of Bulgaria after the death of the legitimate ruler, Roman -
Nika revolt
revolt against Emperor Justinian I that took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in AD 532. -
Great schism
The East–West Schism, between the Eastern Church and the Western Church in 1054. The Western Schism, a split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417. -
emperor constantine I founded the byzantine capital
Constantine", Constantinople) after its re-foundation under Roman emperor Constantine I, who transferred the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium in 330 AD and designated his new capital officially as Nova Roma -
Hagia Sophia completed
Hagia Sophia, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya was a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica, later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
