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330
Emperor Constantine i founded the Byzantine capital
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532
Nika revolt
Half the city was burned and tens of thousands of people killed -
Period: 533 to 554
General Belisarius military campaigns
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537
Haggai Sophia completed
A church that became a mosk when the Islamic conquests got to constantanople -
Jan 1, 623
Early Islamic military campaigns
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Jan 1, 1054
Great schism
Between the western church and eastern church -
Jan 1, 1093
Emperor alexios contacts pope Urban ii for military help in the Middle East
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Period: Jan 1, 1202 to Jan 1, 1204
Fourth crusade (attack on constantanople)
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Jan 1, 1453
Fall of constantanople to the ottoman Turks
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Period: to Jan 1, 1018
Emperor Basil ii military conquests of Bulgaria