Events
Byzantium in 700 (Territorial loss, decline of cities, strategiai)Byzantium in 555 (Last Romans?)Cross erected in front of the Imperial Palace (726)Gregory II (pope) refuses to remove imagesSynod of 754 - Sacred images are bannedByzantium in 750 (Iconoclastic)Thema reformsCouncil of Nicaea (787) - Iconoclasm condemnedTagmata reformsSiege of Constantinople (717-718)Forced population transfers from Anatolia to the BalkansBattle of Pliska (811)Donation of Pippin (756) - Pope becomes independent from ByzantiumConstantine and Methodius (863)Khan Boris converts (864)Byzantium in 850 (economic surplus, fiscal stability and end of the Iconoclasm)Byzantium in 1025 (The Imperial Court, multi-ethnic powerful empire)Varangian Guard (987)Byzantium in 1100Timur defeats the Ottomans at Ankara and imprisons their leader (1402)Fall of Constantinople (1453)4th Crusade (1204)Constantinople recaptured (1261)The Great Schism(1054)4th Lateran Council (1215)Byzantine mesoi on behalf of the Italian merchantsSecond Bulgar Empire formed (1185)Mongol invasions (1240s)Ottoman Dynasty established (1281)Ottomans defeat Byzantines at the battle of Nicopolis (1396)Massacre of Latins at ConstantinopleLatins gain privilagesSaladin takes over Jerusalem (1187)Periods
Justinian (527-565)Devastating war with Persia (604-630)Arab conquest of Syria, N Africa and Hispania (634-698)Bulgar conquest of the Balkans (670-681)Leo III the Isaurian (717-741)Constantine V (741-775)Ban on Sacred ImagesPartial Ban on Sacred ImagesPlague of JustinianIrene (780-802)Leo IV (775-780)Nicephorus (802-811)Basil II 'the Bulgar Slayer' (976-1025)Macedonian ReneissanceSultanate of Rum (1081-1308)Alexus I Comneneus (r.1081-1118)Latin Empire (1204-1261)Timurid Empire(1336-1406)1st Crusade (1096-1099)3rd Crusade (1189-1192)Chapter 1: Retrenchment in the EastChapter 2: Saving Byzantium, Ruralization and IconoclasmChapter 3: New Icons and Armies, Christianization of East Central Europe and the Macedonian RenaissanceChapter 4: Imperial court and the Dynatoi, Reconquests, and the RusChapter 5: Byzantium - Bloodied But Unbowed: Komnenians and SeljuksChapter 6: 4th Crusade and Latin dominanceChapter 7,8: Mongols and Ottomans, Global Trade and Italian merchantsRebellion of the Dynatoi
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