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  • Nika Riots
    532

    Nika Riots

    The Nika riots to place over only a week in Constantinople it was the most violent riot in the history of Constinople with nearly half of the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people dead
  • General Belisarius Military Campaigns
    533

    General Belisarius Military Campaigns

    For his efforts he was rewarded the power of a land and sea
  • Hague Sophia
    537

    Hague Sophia

    Was a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica that later turned into an Ottoman mosque and is now a museum
  • Early Islamic military campaigns into Byzantine territory
    Sep 15, 622

    Early Islamic military campaigns into Byzantine territory

    Islam won and historians claim it's because Sassanid and Byzantine were militarily and economically tired and exhausted.m
  • Basil II conquest for Bulgaria
    Sep 15, 986

    Basil II conquest for Bulgaria

    After getting his position in Byzantium Basil II gathered at 30,000 man army went to the Bulgarian city of Sofia and attacked it. He worried about the lack of loyalty of his own and marched his army back towards Byzantine and was defeated
  • Great Schism
    Sep 15, 1054

    Great Schism

    A split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417
  • First Crusade ordered by pope II
    Sep 15, 1095

    First Crusade ordered by pope II

    Pope urban II makes the best speech of the middle ages giving rise to the crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to get back their holy land
  • Fourth crusade
    Sep 15, 1202

    Fourth crusade

    The fourth Crusade was the western European armed journey called by Pope Innicent III originally intended to win Muslim-control Jerusalem by means of trespassing in to Egypt
  • Fall of Constinople
    Sep 15, 1453

    Fall of Constinople

    Was the capturing of the capital Greco-Roman empire by an army off the Ottoman.