{"slug": "michael-ii", "label": "Michael II", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_II", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41640", "qid": "Q41640", "description": "Byzantine emperor", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [770, 829], "span_label": ["770 CE", "829 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "strategos", "label": "Strategos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolic-theme", "label": "Anatolic Theme", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "uskudar", "label": "Üsküdar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hagia-sophia", "label": "Hagia Sophia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theme-byzantine-district", "label": "Theme (Byzantine district)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abydos-hellespont", "label": "Abydos, Hellespont", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greek-fire", "label": "Greek fire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 770, "year_label": "770 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Michael II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 829)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847752#Births", "title": "770", "revid": 1340847752, "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": 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"}}, {"year": 821, "year_label": "821 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine general Thomas the Slav leads a revolt, and secures control over most of the Byzantine themes (provinces) in Anatolia. He gets recognition from the Abbasid Caliphate, and concludes a peace treaty with Caliph al-Ma'mun. Thomas crosses with his fleet from Abydos to Thrace, and blockades Emperor Michael II in Constantinople; but Thomas' first attack on the capital fails.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941313#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "821", "revid": 1340941313, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 822, "year_label": "822 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine general and usurper Thomas the Slav continues his revolt against Emperor Michael II. He unsuccessfully besieges Constantinople, while his fleet is destroyed by Michael's fleet, using Greek fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267074664#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "822", "revid": 1267074664, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 823, "year_label": "823 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Michael II defeats the rebel forces under Thomas the Slav in Thrace. He and his supporters are forced to seek refuge in Arkadiopolis (modern Turkey). After five months of blockade, Thomas surrenders and is delivered to Michael, seated on a donkey and bound in chains. He pleads for clemency and prostrates before Michael, but is executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073980#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "823", "revid": 1267073980, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 824, "year_label": "824 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "February", "text": "February – A major earthquake strikes Byzantium in Asia Minor (now part of western Turkey) and part of Greece, damaging the city walls of Theodosiopolis (now Barbaros in Turkey) and Heraclea Perinthus at the same time that the forces of Byzantine Emperor Michael II the Amorian are suppressing the rebellion by Thomas the Slav. Both cities surrender after the natural event.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361215157#By_date", "title": "824", "revid": 1361215157, "section": "Events › By date"}}, {"year": 826, "year_label": "826 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – Euphemius, Byzantine admiral, organises an uprising in Sicily against Emperor Michael II. He proclaims himself Emperor (with the title of basileus) in Syracuse, independent from Constantinople. In turn, Euphemius is defeated by Byzantine troops (reinforcements from the East), and is driven out to North Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941323#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "826", "revid": 1340941323, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 829, "year_label": "829 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – Michael II, emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 770)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941503#Deaths", "title": "829", "revid": 1340941503, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 829, "year_label": "829 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – Emperor Michael II dies after an 8-year reign in Constantinople, and is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Theophilos, as sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He continues his father's ideology of iconoclasm.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941503#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "829", "revid": 1340941503, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}