Eastern Roman Empire

Emperor Constantine

330

Decided to find a new capital city for eastern Roman Empire and chose the city of Byzantine to rename it Constantinople. And it became mejor in the black sia.

General Belisarius

Period: 527 to 553

He was instrumental to project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, and he earned the nickname" The Last of The Romans". And the new emperor, Justinian I, maded him to command the Roman army in the east to deal with incursions from the Sassanid Empire. And then he retired at the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople.

The Nika Revolt

532

it was the most violent riot in the history of Constantinople,and half of city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.and some senators saw this as an opportunity to overthrow Justinian but Justinian escaped but his wife stayed but he had a plan and it all worked out well. and Justinian also had executed and exiled the senators who had supported the riot. He then rebuilt Constantinople. He was also free to pursue his ultimate dream of a united Roman Empire

Hagia Sophia

537

Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later converted into an Ottoman mosque, and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey. From the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople,[1] except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire of Constantinople. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931.

Byzantine conquest the Blugaria

Period: Jan 15, 970 to Jan 16, 1018

seek to restore territories the Empire had lost long before. Bulgar had the land of Byzantine since 976. so he want to regain it. so the Byzantine government dissension among them by allowing the escape of their captive emperor Boris II of Bulgaria and try to seek there but they failed to do. so Basil took army of 30,000 men into Bulgaria. he may failed couple times but in the end he ended up wining the war. after he won he leaving one eye to each 100th man,

Great Schism

Jan 1, 1054

it is when the two churches of the eastern and the western split into two groups of religions. and they were called the western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Pope urban II

Jan 1, 1099

It was The First Crusade and they attempted to capture the Holy Land which is Jerusalem and its called by Pope Urban II in 1095. It started as a widespread pilgrimage and ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic to regain the Holy Land taken by the Muslim conquests of the Levant.

Fouth Crusade

Jan 1, 1204

it was a Western European armed expedition called by Pope Innocent III, originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, a sequence of events culminated in the Crusaders sacking the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Christian-controlled Byzantine Empire.

The End of The Roman Empire

May 1, 1453

After the Ottman Turks captured the Constantinople, that marked the end of the Roman Empire. An empire that lasted about 1,500 years. And the Ottman moved there capital city from Edirne to the Constantinople. People that lived there migrated to Italy before the army got there.