{"slug": "yazid-i", "label": "Yazid I", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid_I", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217442", "qid": "Q217442", "description": "second caliph of the Umayyad caliphate (646-683)", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [645, 683], "span_label": ["645 CE", "683 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "muawiyah-i", "label": "Muawiyah I", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "turkey", "label": "Turkey", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cyzicus", "label": "Cyzicus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "arab-muslims", "label": "Arab Muslims", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bosporus", "label": "Bosporus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chalcedon", "label": "Chalcedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "muslim", "label": "Muslim", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaloniki", "label": "Thessaloniki", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 645, "year_label": "645 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Yazid I, Muslim Caliph (d. 683)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347973672#Births", "title": "645", "revid": 1347973672, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 668, "year_label": "668 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Caliph Muawiyah I receives an invitation from Saborios, Byzantine commander of the troops in Armenia, to help overthrow Constantine IV in Constantinople. He sends a Muslim army under his son Yazid, against the Byzantine Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805218#Arabian_Empire", "title": "668", "revid": 1340805218, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 669, "year_label": "669 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Arab forces that have taken Chalcedon, on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, threaten the Byzantine capital Constantinople. The Muslim-Arabs are decimated by famine and disease. Yazid, the Arab commander, retreats to the island of Cyzicus (modern Turkey).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805223#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "669", "revid": 1340805223, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 674, "year_label": "674 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Arab forces under Yazid (son of caliph Muawiyah I) retire to Cyzicus (Turkey). For the next 4 years the Arab fleet installs a loose blockade around Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352002710#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "674", "revid": 1352002710, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 676, "year_label": "676 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Siege of Constantinople: Caliph Muawiyah I sends his son Yazid with Muslim reinforcements to Constantinople. At the same time, the Byzantines have to face a Slavic attack on Thessaloniki and Lombard attacks in Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938815#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "676", "revid": 1365938815, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 678, "year_label": "678 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – Siege of Constantinople: Emperor Constantine IV confronts the Arab besiegers in a head-on engagement. The Byzantine fleet, equipped with Greek fire, destroys the Muslim fleet at Sillyon, ending the Arab threat to Europe, and forcing Yazid (a son of caliph Muawiyah I) to lift the siege on land and sea. The victory also frees up forces that are sent to raise the two-year siege of Thessalonica by the local Slavic tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352010309#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "678", "revid": 1352010309, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 680, "year_label": "680 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Yazid I, son of Muawiyah I, becomes the sixth caliph (second Umayyad caliph) but Kufans in Mesopotamia rebel and invite Hussein ibn Ali (grandson of Muhammad) to take the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331672551#Arabian_Empire", "title": "680", "revid": 1331672551, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 683, "year_label": "683 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 – Yazid I, Muslim caliph (b. 647)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367313750#Deaths", "title": "683", "revid": 1367313750, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 683, "year_label": "683 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 14", "text": "November 14 – Caliph Yazid I dies at Damascus, after a 3-year reign marked by civil war. He is succeeded by his son Muawiya II as ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367313750#Arabian_Empire", "title": "683", "revid": 1367313750, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}]}