25 events with tag "Byzantine"
330
ID: 4756
Constantine founds Constantinople - 'New Rome' becomes Eastern capital, Christian city from beginning
ID: 4756
508
ID: 2827
Clovis named honorary consul - Byzantine Emperor Anastasius recognizes him, parades in purple at Tours, legitimizes rule
ID: 2827
537
ID: 4759
Hagia Sophia completed - Justinian exclaims 'Solomon, I have surpassed thee!', largest cathedral for 1000 years
ID: 4759
552
ID: 4805
Narses completes reconquest of Italy - eunuch general defeats Goths after 20-year war, Italy devastated
ID: 4805
567
ID: 4806
Narses recalled to Constantinople - Empress Sophia insults him: 'eunuch should spin with women', Narses vows revenge
ID: 4806
574
ID: 4814
Italy permanently divided - Lombards control north, Byzantines hold Ravenna and south, fragmentation until 1861
ID: 4814
584
ID: 5094
Venice under Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna - lagoon settlements organized under Byzantine administration, nominal imperial control
ID: 5094
602
ID: 4688
Khosrow II begins great war - uses Maurice's murder as pretext for massive invasion
ID: 4688
627
ID: 4691
Battle of Nineveh - Heraclius defeats Persians decisively, Khosrow II overthrown
ID: 4691
802
ID: 2912
Byzantine negotiations - Empress Irene proposes marriage to unite empires, she's deposed before completion
ID: 2912
812
ID: 2921
Byzantine recognition - Emperor Michael I recognizes Charlemagne as Emperor of the West, two Roman Empires acknowledged
ID: 2921
832
ID: 5098
First St. Mark's Basilica built - Doge Giustiniano Participazio builds church to house St. Mark's relics, Byzantine style
ID: 5098
840
ID: 5099
Pactum Lotharii - Treaty with Carolingians confirms Venice's independence from Western Empire, Byzantine allegiance maintained
ID: 5099
992
ID: 5101
Golden Bull of 992 - Byzantine Emperor Basil II grants Venice extensive trading privileges in Constantinople
ID: 5101
1025
ID: 4774
Death of Basil II - Byzantine Empire at medieval peak, stretches from Danube to Syria
ID: 4774
1094
ID: 5103
New St. Mark's Basilica consecrated - current Byzantine-style basilica completed with golden mosaics, becomes symbol of Venice
ID: 5103
1204
ID: 5109
Venice gains 'Quarter and Half-Quarter' of Byzantine Empire - controls three-eighths of former Byzantine territories, becomes imperial power
ID: 5109
1261
ID: 49
Byzantine Empire restored in Constantinople under Michael VIII Palaiologos
ID: 49
1261
ID: 4781
Michael VIII retakes Constantinople - Byzantine Empire restored but permanently weakened
ID: 4781
1341
ID: 4782
Byzantine civil war begins - empire exhausts itself while Ottomans expand in Anatolia
ID: 4782
1347
ID: 4202
Dragon-shaped comet over Constantinople - Byzantine chronicles record dragon comet before Black Death arrives
ID: 4202
1439
ID: 5129
Council of Florence attempts reunion of Eastern and Western Churches - Cosimo hosts Byzantine Emperor John VIII
ID: 5129
1453
ID: 3564
Holy Face of Genoa (separate from Shroud) performs miracle - Image on cloth spontaneously appears during Mass - Byzantine emperor's gift authenticated by bleeding
ID: 3564
1453
ID: 77
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople - Constantine XI dies on walls, Byzantine Empire ends after 1,123 years
ID: 77
1485
ID: 5978
Ivan III adopts title 'Sovereign of All Russia' - claims inheritance of Byzantine Empire after marrying Sophia Paleologus
ID: 5978