{"slug": "irene-of-athens", "label": "Irene of Athens", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_of_Athens", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206737", "qid": "Q206737", "description": "empress of Byzantine Empire (752-803)", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [752, 803], "span_label": ["752 CE", "803 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "constantine-vi", "label": "Constantine VI", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "francia", "label": "Francia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "charlemagne", "label": "Charlemagne", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christmas", "label": "Christmas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-europe", "label": "Western Europe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-leo-iii", "label": "Pope Leo III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carolingian-empire", "label": "Carolingian Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 752, "year_label": "752 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809787#Births", "title": "752", "revid": 1340809787, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 780, "year_label": "780 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 - Emperor Leo IV (\"the Khazar\") dies after a 5-year reign, in which he has been dominated by his wife Irene of Athens, an iconodule. He is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Constantine VI; due to his minority, Irene and her chief minister Staurakios exercise a regency over him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753540#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "780", "revid": 1364753540, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 782, "year_label": "782 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Harun al-Rashid reaches as far as Chrysopolis, across the Bosporus Straits from the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. After the defection of the Armenian general Tatzates, Empress Irene accepts a three-year truce, including the annual payment of a tribute of 70,000 or 90,000 gold dinars, and the handing over of 10,000 silk garments. Harun releases all his captives (5,600 men), including chief minister Staurakios and other hostages.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267081621#Abbasid_Empire", "title": "782", "revid": 1267081621, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Empire"}}, {"year": 787, "year_label": "787 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Empress Irene sends a Byzantine expeditionary army to invade southern Italy, but it is defeated and driven out (at Pope Adrian I's urging) by the Frankish army, allied with the forces of Benevento. She breaks off the engagement (see 782) between her son Constantine VI and the Frankish princess Rotrude, daughter of King Charlemagne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558832#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "AD 787", "revid": 1369558832, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 790, "year_label": "790 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – The Armeniac Theme, located in northeastern Asia Minor (modern Turkey), revolts against Empress Irene, and declares the 19-year-old Constantine VI sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Other themes follow its example, and imprison their strategoi. Constantine sends his iconoclast general Michael Lachanodrakon, to ensure that the Armeniacs (his closest supporters) take an oath. Irene is confined and imprisoned in her palace at Constantinople; all her eunuchs are exiled.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848291#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "790", "revid": 1340848291, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 797, "year_label": "797 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 or August 19 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son Constantine VI. He is captured and blinded; Irene exiles him to Principo, where he dies shortly thereafter of his wounds. Irene begins a 5-year reign, and calls herself basileus (\"emperor\") of the Byzantine Empire. (Sources and historians conflict on whether this was in April or August.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358611998#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "797", "revid": 1358611998, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 800, "year_label": "800 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – Charlemagne, king of the Franks, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III as Charles I, with the title \"Emperor of the Romans\". The coronation takes place during Mass at the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, on Christmas Day. The Frankish Empire is formed in Western Europe, which is not recognized by Empress Irene at Constantinople. This triggers a series of disputes with the Byzantines around who is officially ruling the former Western Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367075277#Europe", "title": "800", "revid": 1367075277, "section": "Events › Europe"}}, {"year": 802, "year_label": "802 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – Empress Irene is deposed after a 5-year reign, and banished to Lesbos. High-ranking patricians place Nikephoros, the minister of finance (logothetes tou genikou), on the throne. He is crowned in the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople, by Patriarch Tarasios, as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848783#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "802", "revid": 1340848783, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 803, "year_label": "803 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848789#Deaths", "title": "803", "revid": 1340848789, "section": "Deaths"}}]}