/year

Byzantine emperor

ruler of the Byzantine Empire

26 dated entries naming Byzantine emperor, drawn from 19 separate years between 467 CE and 1448 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

JSONWikipedia articleWikidata Q18577504

5th century

6th century

  • 535The death of Amalasuintha gives Byzantine Emperor Justinian I a pretext to invade Italy and begin the Gothic War.source

11th century

  • 1025December 15 – Byzantine Emperor Basil II ("Bulgar Slayer") dies in Constantinople after a 50-year reign. Never married, he is succeeded by his brother and co-emperor Constantine VIII, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. Constantine calls the Sicilian invasion off. Catapan Basil Boioannes diverts the Byzantine expeditionary force already assembled on Calabria, to join the siege of Capua.source

12th century

  • 1165Spring – Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos makes an alliance with Venice against Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who takes an oath at the Diet of Würzburg to support Antipope Paschal III against Pope Alexander III.source
  • 1183Alexios II is compelled to condemn his own mother to death. In September, Andronikos Komenos is formally proclaimed Byzantine Emperor before the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalke. By the end of the month, Andronikos orders Alexios' assassination; the young emperor is strangled in secret with a bow-string and his body thrown in the Bósporos.source
  • 1183October – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1167)source
  • 1195Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II, and becomes Byzantine Emperor.source

13th century

  • 1204February 5 – Alexios V Doukas is crowned Byzantine emperor.source
  • 1204February 8 – Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperorsource
  • 1204January – Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine emperorsource
  • 1204January 27–28 – Byzantine emperor Alexios IV Angelos is overthrown in a revolution.source
  • 1235Siege of Constantinople: The Byzantine emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes and the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II besiege Constantinople in an attempt to take it from its Latin rulers, John of Brienne and Baldwin II. Angelo Sanudo successfully negotiates a two-year truce.source

14th century

  • 1332February 13 – Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)source
  • 1332June 18 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1391)source
  • 1341June 15 – Andronikos III Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1297)source
  • 1350June 27 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1425)source
  • 1354December 10 – The reign of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor is ended, after John V Palaiologos retakes Constantinople and is restored as sole emperor.source
  • 1370John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1408)source
  • 1390April 14 – John VII Palaiologos overthrows his grandfather, John V Palaiologos, as Byzantine Emperor.source
  • 1391February 16 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1332)source
  • 1391February 16 –Manuel II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine emperor after his father, John V Palaiologos, dies from a nervous breakdown, due to his continued humiliation by the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1400December 21 – Manuel II Palaiologos becomes the only Byzantine Emperor ever to visit England, and is greeted at Blackheath by King Henry IV, who hosts the Emperor at Eltham Palace during the Christmas holiday.source

15th century

  • 1405February 8 – Constantine XI, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)source
  • 1408September 22 – Andronikos Palaiologos becomes the new Byzantine Emperor of Thessalonica after the death of his brother, John VIII Palaiologos.source
  • 1408September 22 – John VII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1370)source
  • 1448October 31 – John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)source

Named in the same entries