{"slug": "kavad-i", "label": "Kavad I", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavad_I", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244071", "qid": "Q244071", "description": "Sasanian King of Kings (488–531)", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [449, 531], "span_label": ["449 CE", "531 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Kavadh I"], "related": [{"slug": "sasanian-empire", "label": "Sasanian Empire", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "anastasius-i-dicorus", "label": "Anastasius I Dicorus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "erzurum", "label": "Erzurum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elam", "label": "Elam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edessa", "label": "Edessa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tigris", "label": "Tigris", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "osroene", "label": "Osroene", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amida-mesopotamia", "label": "Amida (Mesopotamia)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 449, "year_label": "449 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Kavadh I, king of the Persian Empire (d. 531)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354021999#Births", "title": "449", "revid": 1354021999, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 473, "year_label": "473 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Kavad I, king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire from 488 to 531, with an interruption of two years", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747615#Births", "title": "473", "revid": 1364747615, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 488, "year_label": "488 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Kavadh I is crowned by the nobles, and succeeds his blind uncle Balash as the 19th king of Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789358#Persia", "title": "488", "revid": 1340789358, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 496, "year_label": "496 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Kavadh I of Persia is deposed and exiled to Susiana by his younger brother Djamasp. He is installed by the nobles to the Sassanid throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364740340#Asia", "title": "496", "revid": 1364740340, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 498, "year_label": "498 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Kavadh I returns from exile with support of 30,000 Hephthalites (White Huns), and again assumes the Sassanid throne. He punishes his opponents and probably his brother Djamasp, who usurped the throne from him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365508717#Persia", "title": "498", "revid": 1365508717, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 502, "year_label": "502 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "War with Sassanid Persia: Emperor Anastasius I refuses to pay a share of the cost of defending the Caucasian Gates, through which nomadic tribes have come for raids on Persia and the Byzantine Empire. King Kavadh I invades Armenia and captures Theodosiopolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748175#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "AD 502", "revid": 1364748175, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 503, "year_label": "503 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "War with Sassanid Persia: Emperor Anastasius I sends a Byzantine army (52,000 men) to Armenia, but is defeated. The Romans attempt an unsuccessful siege of the Persian-held city Amida, on the Tigris. King Kavadh I invades Osroene, and lays siege to the city of Edessa (Northern Mesopotamia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364904019#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "503", "revid": 1364904019, "section": "Events › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 504, "year_label": "504 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Kavadh I hands over the fortress-city of Amida, and agrees to an armistice with the Byzantine Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747389#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "504", "revid": 1364747389, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 513, "year_label": "513 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Kavadh I adopts the doctrine of the Mazdakites, and breaks the influence of the magnates' (nobility).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908252#Persia", "title": "513", "revid": 1364908252, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 526, "year_label": "526 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Roman–Persian Wars: King Kavad I, assisted by his Arabian vassal, Al-Mundhir III, begins a campaign in the Transcaucasus region and Upper Mesopotamia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754141#Persia", "title": "526", "revid": 1364754141, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 531, "year_label": "531 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Kavad I, age 82, dies after a 43-year reign. Khosrau I, his favourite son, is proclaimed successor over his elder brothers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351343342#Persia", "title": "531", "revid": 1351343342, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 531, "year_label": "531 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Kavadh I, king of the Persian Empire (b. 449)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351343342#Deaths", "title": "531", "revid": 1351343342, "section": "Deaths"}}]}