{"slug": "constantine-xi-palaiologos", "label": "Constantine XI Palaiologos", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37142", "qid": "Q37142", "description": "last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1405, 1453], "span_label": ["1405 CE", "1453 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Constantine XI"], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "duchy-of-athens", "label": "Duchy of Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "despotate-of-the-morea", "label": "Despotate of the Morea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "october", "label": "October", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mehmed-ii", "label": "Mehmed II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "murad-ii", "label": "Murad II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "janissary", "label": "Janissary", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "patras", "label": "Patras", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-emperor", "label": "Byzantine Emperor", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1405, "year_label": "1405 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 8", "text": "February 8 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337543539#Births", "title": "1405", "revid": 1337543539, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1429, "year_label": "1429 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Emperor of Byzantium, begins the siege of the Greek port of Patras, which is controlled by the Venetian Republic. The city surrenders to the Byzantines on June 1.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320610#January–March", "title": "1429", "revid": 1351320610, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1444, "year_label": "1444 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Constantine XI Palaiologos, as ruler of the Despotate of the Morea, invades the Duchy of Athens (at this time under Florentine control), and forces it to pay tribute and return Thebes to the Byzantine Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359067554#Date_unknown", "title": "1444", "revid": 1359067554, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1446, "year_label": "1446 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October", "text": "October – Murad II, who recently became the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire after his son Mehmed II was forced by the Janissaries to abdicate, invades Attica, forcing Constantine XI to return Thebes to the duchy of Athens, and remove the tribute imposed in 1444. Murad II imposes his own tribute.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360566332#October–December", "title": "1446", "revid": 1360566332, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1449, "year_label": "1449 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra; he will be the last in a line of rulers that can be traced to the founding of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365251873#January–March", "title": "1449", "revid": 1365251873, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1453, "year_label": "1453 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 29", "text": "May 29 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337591251#Deaths", "title": "1453 events", "revid": 1337591251, "section": "Deaths"}}]}