Timeline

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  • Period: 300 to 1500

    Timeline

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  • Period: 330 to 330

    Emperor Constantine 1 founded the Byzantine capital

    In this time period, Byzantine was chose as the “New Rome” with an eponymous capital city, Constantinople. While five years earlier, Rome’s official religion was chosen as Christianity.
  • Period: 505 to 565

    General Belisarius military campaigns

    Belisarius was one if the mast important figures in the Roman military tradition. He led armies against the Sassanian empire, the vandal kingdom of North Africa, the ostrigotichic regime of Italy, and the barbarian troops encroaching upon Constantinople.
  • Period: 532 to 532

    Nika revolt

    The Nika revolt took place against emperor Justinian 1 in Constantinople over the course of a week. It is said that they were the most violent riots in the city’s history.
  • Period: 532 to 537

    Hagia Sofia Completed

    Also known as the church of holy wisdom or church of divine wisdom, the cathedral was built at Constantinople.
  • Period: 637 to 637

    Earky Islamic military campaigns into Byzantine territory

    The Islamic military campaigns established a new unified polity in the Arabian Peninsula.
  • Period: 976 to 1025

    Basil 2

    Basil the second need up extending imperial rule in Georgia, Bulgaria, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. He also increased domestic authority by attacking the powerful land interests of the military aristocracy and of the church.
  • Period: 1054 to 1054

    Great schism

    The great schism was the break of communion between what are now the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches.
  • Period: 1095 to 1095

    Emperor Akexiosncontacts the pope

    The Urban Pope wanted to reinforce the power of the papacy, so he seized the opportunity to unite Christian Europe under him as he fought to take back the holy lands from the Turks.
  • Period: 1204 to 1204

    Fourth crusade

    The byAntin city of Constantinople divided and dissipated the efforts of the Christians to maintain war against the Muslims. Eventually it was corrupted due to its purpose early on.
  • Period: 1453 to 1453

    Fall of Constantinople to the ottoman Turks

    Resulting in the Ottomans becoming an empire, it was caused by the Ottoman Empire invading the Byzantine empire and succeeding. Therefore resulting in the complete fall of the eastern Roman Empire.