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2017 BCE
Emperor Alexios I Contacts Pope Urban II for Military Help in Middle East
Emperor Alexios I was Byzantine emperor from 1081-1118 and was a part of the Komnenian dynasty, his family's dynasty which came to full power during his reign. Pope Urban II was Pope from 1088-1099, and initiated the First Crusade. His goal was to respond to an appeal from Alexios I Komnenos who had requested that the western volunteers help to repel the invading Turks from Anatolia. -
1453 BCE
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks
The Byzantine emperior was one of the strongest in military. They were battling many of their enemies, protecting themselves. Their capital Constantinople had captured many of groups attention especially the Ottoman Turks, not for the religion but for the gold. The Byzantines were slowly declining finically because of military disasters in their other cities. The Ottoman Turks invaded the captial and won since most of the military wasn't in Constantinople -
Period: 1378 BCE to 1417 BCE
Great Schism
The Great Schism was a split between eastern and western Chrisrianity. During this, the pope and the patriarch treated each other as rivals and not as branches of the same faith. The Byzantine church became known as the Eastern, or Greek, Orthodox Chruch, while the western branch was known as the Roman Catholic. -
Period: 1202 BCE to 1204 BCE
Fourth Crusade
The Fourth Crusade was the final of all the Crusades and was intended to conquer Jerusalem. The Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and attacked Constantinople. Many saw this as one of the final acts in the Great Schism and an important turning point of the decline of the empire and of Christianity. -
997 BCE
Emperor Basil II Military conquests of Bulgaria
There was a series of conflicts between the Bulgaria and Byzantine emperor. It eventually led to the gradually conquest of Bulgaria. Emperor basil II ordered the Byzantine military to the gates of Trajan and retake north eastern Bulgaria. -
Period: 780 BCE to 1180 BCE
Early Islamic Military Campaigns into Byzantine Territory
780-1180
Prophet Muhammad established a new United party in Arabian peninsula. It caused the Arabian conquest/ Islamic order to expand their territory and went into Byzantine territory. -
330
Emperor Constantine i Founded the Byzantine Capital
330 A.D.
Byzantine took on the name of Konstantinoupolis after its re-foundation under roman emperor Constantine i, who transferred the capital of the roman empire from Rome to Byzantine and designated it his new capital as Nova Roma -
Period: 505 to 565
General Belisarius Military Campaigns
General Berzelius was the general during Emperor Justinian's reign. His Byzantine armies reconquered North Africa, Italy, and southern Iberian Peninsula. -
532
Nika Revolt (riots)
532
It was the most violent riot in the history of Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed. -
537
Hagia Sophia Completed
537
Emperor Justinian ordered for the construction of the Hagia Sophia to begin after the previous church had been destroyed in riots. It is filled with mosaics of religious figures and is used today as a museum.
