{"slug": "leo-i-emperor", "label": "Leo I (emperor)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_%28emperor%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183776", "qid": "Q183776", "description": "Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474", "entries": 16, "years": 15, "span": [401, 484], "span_label": ["401 CE", "484 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ricimer", "label": "Ricimer", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "theodoric-the-great", "label": "Theodoric the Great", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dacia", "label": "Dacia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "latin", "label": "Latin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "isauria", "label": "Isauria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "romania", "label": "Romania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "balkans", "label": "Balkans", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 401, "year_label": "401 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (d. 474)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334186664#Births", "title": "401", "revid": 1334186664, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 457, "year_label": "457 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – Leo I, a Thraco-Roman (or Dacian) high-ranking officer, becomes the new emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, reigning for nearly 20 years. He is first to accept the Byzantine crown from the hands of the patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367050070#Roman_Empire", "title": "457", "revid": 1367050070, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 459, "year_label": "459 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Leo I signs a peace treaty with the Ostrogoths. King Theodemir sends his son, the future Theodoric the Great, age 5, as a child hostage to Constantinople. He learns at court about Latin, military tactics and religion (until 469).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267077454#Roman_Empire", "title": "459", "revid": 1267077454, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 460, "year_label": "460 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Leo I founds the Excubitors (imperial guard) at Constantinople; this elite tagmatic unit (300 men) is recruited from among the warlike Isaurians (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598361#Roman_Empire", "title": "460", "revid": 1360598361, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 462, "year_label": "462 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Vandal War (461-468): After negotiations, Emperor Leo I pays a large ransom for Licinia Eudoxia and Placidia. They return after seven years of captivity in Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1284520427#Roman_Empire", "title": "462", "revid": 1284520427, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 465, "year_label": "465 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Basiliscus, with the help of his sister Verina (wife of emperor Leo I), becomes a consul in the Eastern Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739674#Roman_Empire", "title": "465", "revid": 1364739674, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 466, "year_label": "466 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Leo I repels the Hun invasion of Dacia (modern Romania). They ravage the Balkans but are unable to take Constantinople thanks to the city walls, which are rebuilt and reinforced.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739705#Roman_Empire", "title": "466", "revid": 1364739705, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 467, "year_label": "467 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Emperor Leo I has his general Anthemius elected emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He allies himself with Ricimer, de facto ruler of Rome, and marries Anthemius's daughter Alypia to him, to strengthen the relationship and end the hostilities between the Eastern and Western Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138919#Roman_Empire", "title": "467", "revid": 1360138919, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 468, "year_label": "468 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Leo I assembles a massive naval expedition at Constantinople, which costs 64,000 pounds of gold (more than a year's revenue) and consists of over 1,100 ships carrying 100,000 men. It is the greatest fleet ever sent against the Vandals and brings Leo near to bankruptcy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138410#Roman_Empire", "title": "468", "revid": 1360138410, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 469, "year_label": "469 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ostrogoth prince Theodoric, age 15, returns to Pannonia, after living as a child hostage at the court of Emperor Leo I in Constantinople (see 459).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138926#Roman_Empire", "title": "469", "revid": 1360138926, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 471, "year_label": "471 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Basiliscus, brother-in-law of Emperor Leo I, returns from exile (see 468) and leads an imperial conspiracy against Aspar (magister militum), helping in his murder at Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365043260#Roman_Empire", "title": "471", "revid": 1365043260, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 473, "year_label": "473 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Emperor Leo I refuses to recognize him, and chooses Julius Nepos as candidate to the Western throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747615#Roman_Empire", "title": "473", "revid": 1364747615, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 474, "year_label": "474 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – Emperor Leo I dies of dysentery at Constantinople, after a 17-year reign. He is succeeded by his 7-year-old grandson Leo II, who briefly becomes ruler of the Byzantine Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360137662#Roman_Empire", "title": "474", "revid": 1360137662, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 474, "year_label": "474 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – Leo I, Byzantine emperor (b. 401)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360137662#Deaths", "title": "474", "revid": 1360137662, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 483, "year_label": "483 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine general Illus (magister officiorum), and Verina (widow of the late emperor Leo I), attempt to overthrow Emperor Zeno and place another general named Leontius on the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789371#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "483", "revid": 1340789371, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 484, "year_label": "484 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Verina, wife of former emperor Leo I", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749511#Deaths", "title": "484", "revid": 1364749511, "section": "Deaths"}}]}