Byzantine timeline

Byzantine

Period: 300 to Sep 15, 1500

Emperor Constantine

330

He was also known as Constantine the great. He was a Roman Emperor, Proclaimed Augustus by his troops. He rebuilt the city of Byzantium and renamed the city Nova Rome ( New Rome), providing it with a senate and civil offices similar to the older Rome. He became Western Augustus Ruler of the entire western Rome Empire init until he died in 337.

General Belisarius Military Campaigns

505

He was a general of the Byzantine Empire. Instrumental to Emperor Justinians ambitious project of reconguering Mediterranean territory of former western Roman empire. Which was lost less than a century previously. A defining feather of Belisarius career he was success despite vary levels of support from Justinian. His name was frequently "Last of the Romans"

Hagia Sophia

523

The words Hagia Sophia means the Holy Wisdom, which is the theological idea that perfect Wisdom is to be found in God alone. Hagia Sophia is a domed monument originally built as a cathedral; the principal church of a diocese, with which the bishop is associated in. It was not build in steel but built with bricks and mortar. it was two levels, with a small dome on top.

Niko Revolt

532

Took place over the course of a week in Constantinople. It was the most violent riot in history, with half the city being burned or destroyed and 10 thousands of people dead. The roman and Byzantine empires had well developed assications which were known as demes; support the different factors under which competitions the certain sporting events competed, main colors are blue and green.

Early Islamic Military

Sep 16, 634

The Muslim conquest brought about the collapse of the Sassanian Empire and a great territorial loss, Most historians agree that the Sassanian person and Byzantine Roman empires were military and also economically exhausted from decades of fighting. Emperor Heraclitus regained all lost territories and restored the true cross to Jerusalem in 629.

Emperor Basil

Sep 16, 986

Basil II was a successful general and experienced soldier, slowly got the upper hand. Basil II was a Byzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty he based his army in Philippopolis. He extended imperial rule in the Balkan. He was known as many other names like Basil the Porphyrogenitus and Basil the Young, but only to distinguish him from his supposed ancestor Basil I the Macedonia.

Great Schism

Sep 14, 1054

It was known as the East-West Schism that was divided Christanity into Western ( Roman) Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The church was split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic,political and geographic lines, the fundamental branch has never been head. The church was recognized the special position of the three bishop of Rome, bishop of Alexandeia, and the bishop of Antioch.

Emperor Alexios

Sep 14, 1081

He was not not the fonder of Komnenian Dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komneos family came to full power. He inherited the collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare against both Seljuq Turks and Normans.

Fourth crusade

Sep 14, 1202

Was a western European expedition called Pope innocent III, originally conquer Muslim controlled Jerusalem by invasion though Egypt. It was considered to be a final act in Great Schism between eastern Orthodox Church and roman Catholic Church. There was a group of French nights that took crusade vows, There was a treaty made wit the doge of Venice, Enrico Dandolo for aid in reaching the Mideast.

Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks

Sep 14, 1453

Turks fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Greco-Roman Empire by invading army of Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans were commanded by the Mehmed the Conqueror, the seventh sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who defeated an army commanded by the Byzantines Constantine XI Palaiologos. Thye did it for about 53 days and begun April, 6th 1453