24 events with tag "capital"
1346 BC
ID: 3652
Akhetaten founded - Akhenaten moves capital to virgin site, dedicated to Aten, abandons Thebes
ID: 3652
1300 BC
ID: 3610
Pan Geng moves Shang capital to Yin (Anyang) - stabilizes dynasty, beginning of late Shang period
ID: 3610
1235 BC
ID: 4630
Tukulti-Ninurta I builds new capital Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta across from Ashur
ID: 4630
1200 BC
ID: 3636
Fall of Hattusa - Hittite capital burned and abandoned, empire collapses under Suppiluliuma II
ID: 3636
1003 BC
ID: 2743
David captures Jerusalem - makes it capital of united kingdom, 'City of David' established
ID: 2743
883 BC
ID: 3617
Ashurnasirpal II begins Neo-Assyrian expansion - brutal campaigns, builds new capital at Nimrud
ID: 3617
880 BC
ID: 2754
Omri founds Samaria - builds new capital for Northern Kingdom, establishes powerful dynasty
ID: 2754
717 BC
ID: 4637
Sargon II builds new capital at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad) - never completed
ID: 4637
705 BC
ID: 3620
Sennacherib becomes king - moves capital to Nineveh, builds 'Palace without Rival'
ID: 3620
690 BC
ID: 3687
Taharqa rules from Memphis - builds extensively in Egypt and Nubia, largest pyramid at Nuri
ID: 3687
590 BC
ID: 3690
Capital moves to Meroe - Aspelta relocates south after Egyptian attack on Napata
ID: 3690
515 BC
ID: 3630
Darius begins Persepolis construction - ceremonial capital, architectural masterpiece
ID: 3630
141 BC
ID: 4661
Parthians capture Seleucia - major Hellenistic city falls, Ctesiphon becomes winter capital
ID: 4661
330
ID: 4756
Constantine founds Constantinople - 'New Rome' becomes Eastern capital, Christian city from beginning
ID: 4756
330
ID: 5924
Constantine allegedly transfers Palladium to Constantinople - legend says he secretly moved it from Rome to protect new capital, buried under Column of Constantine
ID: 5924
508
ID: 2826
Clovis makes Paris his capital - moves from Tournai to Paris, builds church of Saints-Apostles (later Sainte-Geneviève)
ID: 2826
572
ID: 4811
Fall of Pavia after 3-year siege - becomes Lombard capital, Alboin establishes kingdom
ID: 4811
710
ID: 5488
Nara established as Japan's first permanent capital, modeled on Chinese capital Chang'an
ID: 5488
790
ID: 2902
Palace complex at Aachen begun - modeled on Ravenna, octagonal chapel, becomes Charlemagne's favorite residence
ID: 2902
794
ID: 5491
Capital moved from Nara to Heian-kyo (Kyoto), beginning Heian period lasting until 1185
ID: 5491
810
ID: 5096
Capital moved to Rialto - Doge Agnello Participazio transfers seat from Malamocco to Rialto islands after Frankish attack
ID: 5096
860
ID: 2627
Vikings sack Winchester - West Saxon capital burned, but Vikings driven off by relieving force
ID: 2627
1420
ID: 4718
Forbidden City completed - Yongle Emperor moves capital from Nanjing to Beijing
ID: 4718
1571
ID: 5625
June 24, 1571
Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi establishes Manila as the capital of the Spanish East Indies
ID: 5625