{"slug": "zeno-emperor", "label": "Zeno (emperor)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_%28emperor%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183452", "qid": "Q183452", "description": "Byzantine Emperor (425–491)", "entries": 16, "years": 14, "span": [425, 491], "span_label": ["425 CE", "491 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "isauria", "label": "Isauria", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "augustus-honorific", "label": "Augustus (honorific)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "eastern-roman-empire", "label": "Eastern Roman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "august", "label": "August", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cappadocia", "label": "Cappadocia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theodoric-the-great", "label": "Theodoric the Great", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 425, "year_label": "425 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Zeno, Byzantine Emperor (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367645280#Births", "title": "425", "revid": 1367645280, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 466, "year_label": "466 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Tarasicodissa, an Isaurian officer, comes with evidence that Ardabur (magister militum) is forming a conspiracy against Leo I. Ardabur is arrested for treason.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739705#Roman_Empire", "title": "466", "revid": 1364739705, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 474, "year_label": "474 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – Zeno, father of Leo II, is crowned as co-emperor (Augustus). He rules the empire together with his son, and stabilises the Eastern frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360137662#Roman_Empire", "title": "474", "revid": 1360137662, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 475, "year_label": "475 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – Emperor Zeno abdicates under pressure, as his wife's uncle Basiliscus stages a coup d'état at Constantinople, with support from Zeno's trusted adviser and fellow Isaurian Illus. Basiliscus usurps the throne and is proclaimed new emperor (Augustus) of the Eastern Roman Empire. He begins a 20-month reign; Zeno and his supporters flee to Isauria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360137651#Roman_Empire", "title": "475", "revid": 1360137651, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Roman Senate petitions Zeno to recognize Nepos as deposed and take the sole emperorship himself, abolishing the 81-year-long east/west division of the empire and recognizing Odoacer's authority in Italy. Zeno declines the first request, but names Odoacer Patricius, investing his rule with Imperial legitimacy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#Roman_Empire", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August", "text": "August – Basiliscus, Roman usurper, is deposed and Zeno is restored as emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. With the support of his adviser Illus, he besieges Constantinople, but the Senate opens the gates, allowing him to resume the throne. Basiliscus flees to sanctuary in a church, but surrenders himself and his family after extracting a solemn promise from Zeno not to shed their blood. Basiliscus is sent to a fortress in Cappadocia, where he later dies from starvation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#Roman_Empire", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 477, "year_label": "477 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Armatus, Byzantine military commander (magister militum), is killed by order of emperor Zeno, being murdered by his own friend Onoulphus after supporting the rebellion of his uncle Basiliscus in 475.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739274#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "477", "revid": 1364739274, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 478, "year_label": "478 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Verina, mother-in-law of Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno, attempts to kill Isaurian general Illus for turning against her brother Basiliscus. A major revolt is led by her son-in-law Marcian and the Ostrogoth warlord Theodoric Strabo, but Illus again proves his loyalty to Zeno by quashing the revolt in 479.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360122028#Europe", "title": "478", "revid": 1360122028, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 480, "year_label": "480 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Zeno officially dissolves the east/west co-emperorship, ruling as the first sole emperor of Rome in 85 years. The position of emperor is never again divided.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739995#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "480", "revid": 1364739995, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 482, "year_label": "482 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Zeno promulgates an Edict of Union (Henotikon), in an unsuccessful effort to soften the decision made at the Council of Chalcedon (451), and resolve differences between the Eastern and Western Churches. Zeno wishes to placate the Monophysite churches of Egypt, Palestine and Syria for political reasons.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789374#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "482", "revid": 1340789374, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"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": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Leontius raises a rebellion against emperor Zeno, who also faces a revolt from the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great. He sends an army to Syria, but is defeated by the Byzantine general Illus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749511#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "484", "revid": 1364749511, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 488, "year_label": "488 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Zeno regains power from the usurper Leontius and the Isaurian patrician Illus, who are captured and executed, ending a 4-year rebellion (see 484).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789358#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "488", "revid": 1340789358, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 489, "year_label": "489 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Zeno closes the School of Edessa (modern Turkey) for their teaching of Nestorian doctrine, whereupon the scholars seek refuge at the Syriac Church of the East.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747647#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "489", "revid": 1364747647, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 491, "year_label": "491 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – Zeno, Byzantine Emperor", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368214657#Deaths", "title": "491", "revid": 1368214657, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 491, "year_label": "491 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – Emperor Zeno, age 66, dies of dysentery (or of epilepsy) after a 17-year reign. He has no sons to succeed him and Anastasius, palace official (silentiarius) and favoured friend of empress Ariadne, is elevated to the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368214657#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "491", "revid": 1368214657, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}