{"slug": "leo-v-the-armenian", "label": "Leo V the Armenian", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_V_the_Armenian", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41641", "qid": "Q41641", "description": "Byzantine emperor (lived 775–820)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [775, 820], "span_label": ["775 CE", "820 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "michael-ii", "label": "Michael II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "strategos", "label": "Strategos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolic-theme", "label": "Anatolic Theme", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "uskudar", "label": "Üsküdar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "opsikion", "label": "Opsikion", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thracesian-theme", "label": "Thracesian Theme", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "first-bulgarian-empire", "label": "First Bulgarian Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "black-sea", "label": "Black Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khan-title", "label": "Khan (title)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bulgars", "label": "Bulgars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hagia-sophia", "label": "Hagia Sophia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 775, "year_label": "775 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Leo V, Byzantine emperor (d. 820)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848014#Births", "title": "775", "revid": 1340848014, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 803, "year_label": "803 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Bardanes Tourkos, Byzantine general (strategos), is proclaimed emperor by the troops of the Anatolic, Opsikion, Thracian and Bucellarian themes. The 'rebel' army marches to Chrysopolis, a suburb of Constantinople. After the defection of two of his trusted aides, future emperors Leo the Armenian and Michael the Amorian, Bardanes negotiates peace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848789#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "803", "revid": 1340848789, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 813, "year_label": "813 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius). His sons are castrated to prevent them succeeding the Byzantine throne, and relegated into monasteries. One of them, Niketas (renamed Ignatius), eventually becomes a patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340940841#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "813", "revid": 1340940841, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 814, "year_label": "814 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine Iconoclasm: Conflict erupts between Emperor Leo V and Patriarch Nikephoros, on the subject of iconoclasm. The latter is excommunicated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655218#Religion", "title": "814", "revid": 1366655218, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 815, "year_label": "815 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Bulgarian Treaty: Emperor Leo V the Armenian signs a 30-year peace agreement in Constantinople with Omurtag, ruler (khan) of the Bulgarian Empire. The Rhodope Mountains become the Byzantine border again, and Leo regains its lost Black Sea cities, after the Bulgars have them demolished.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348647036#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "815", "revid": 1348647036, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 820, "year_label": "820 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – Emperor Leo V (the Armenian) is assassinated by conspirators in the Hagia Sophia, at Constantinople. Though unarmed, he fights back fiercely but dies of his wounds. He is succeeded by Michael II, the commander of the palace guard (excubitores). Leo's family (including his mother and his wife Theodosia) are exiled to monasteries in Princes' Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345013367#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "820", "revid": 1345013367, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}