{"slug": "justin-i", "label": "Justin I", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_I", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183445", "qid": "Q183445", "description": "Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 527 (450-527)", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [450, 1683], "span_label": ["450 CE", "1683 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "justinian-i", "label": "Justinian I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "anastasius-i-dicorus", "label": "Anastasius I Dicorus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arianism", "label": "Arianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "late-roman-army", "label": "Late Roman army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-consul", "label": "Roman consul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "venice", "label": "Venice", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 450, "year_label": "450 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 2", "text": "February 2 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 527)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334307596#Births", "title": "450", "revid": 1334307596, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 492, "year_label": "492 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Cotyaeum: The Isaurian rebels are defeated by the Eastern Roman army, under John the Scythian and John the Hunchback (subordinate commanders include the future Justin I). They retreat to their mountain fortresses, and continue guerrilla warfare against the Roman forces until 497.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790258#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "492", "revid": 1340790258, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 518, "year_label": "518 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – Emperor Anastasius I dies childless at Constantinople, age 88, after a 27-year reign in which he has abolished the sale of offices, reformed taxation, and perfected the empire's monetary system, but antagonized some with his heretical Monophysite religious policies. He is succeeded by Justin I (Flavius Justinus), his comes excubitorum, commander of the palace guard. After his death, he leaves the imperial treasury richer by 23,000,000 solidi or 320,000 pounds of gold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754317#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "518", "revid": 1364754317, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 520, "year_label": "520 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July", "text": "July – Byzantine general Vitalian becomes consul, and is shortly later murdered, probably on the orders of Justinian, the nephew and heir-apparent of Emperor Justin I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908909#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "520", "revid": 1364908909, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 524, "year_label": "524 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Venantius Opilio is appointed by Byzantium's Emperor Justin to administer the Western Roman Empire as the Roman consul, replacing Anicius Maximus. The Emperor Justin appoints himself as consul for the West, an office vacant since 522, but has Theodorus Filoxenus administering the west.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792013#Europe", "title": "524", "revid": 1340792013, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 525, "year_label": "525 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Justin I rebuilds the city of Anazarbus (modern Turkey) and renames it \"Justinopolis\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792024#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "525", "revid": 1340792024, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 526, "year_label": "526 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope John I returns to Ravenna from Constantinople. Theodoric the Great finds that he has been only partly successful in persuading the Byzantine emperor Justin I to withdraw his edict against Arian Christianity, and throws the pope into prison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754141#Religion", "title": "526", "revid": 1364754141, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 527, "year_label": "527 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler, as an incurable wound saps his strength.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793725#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "527", "revid": 1340793725, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 527, "year_label": "527 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – Justin I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 450)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793725#Deaths", "title": "527", "revid": 1340793725, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1683, "year_label": "1683 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – The opera Giustino by Giovanni Legrenzi and about the life of the Byzantine Emperor Justin, premieres in Venice.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366000368#January–March", "title": "1683", "revid": 1366000368, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}