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Kavad I

Sasanian King of Kings (488–531)

12 dated entries naming Kavad I, drawn from 11 separate years between 449 CE and 531 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.

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5th century

  • 449Kavadh I, king of the Persian Empire (d. 531)source
  • 473Kavad I, king (shah) of the Sasanian Empire from 488 to 531, with an interruption of two yearssource
  • 488Kavadh I is crowned by the nobles, and succeeds his blind uncle Balash as the 19th king of Persia.source
  • 496King Kavadh I of Persia is deposed and exiled to Susiana by his younger brother Djamasp. He is installed by the nobles to the Sassanid throne.source
  • 498Kavadh I returns from exile with support of 30,000 Hephthalites (White Huns), and again assumes the Sassanid throne. He punishes his opponents and probably his brother Djamasp, who usurped the throne from him.source

6th century

  • 502War with Sassanid Persia: Emperor Anastasius I refuses to pay a share of the cost of defending the Caucasian Gates, through which nomadic tribes have come for raids on Persia and the Byzantine Empire. King Kavadh I invades Armenia and captures Theodosiopolis.source
  • 503War with Sassanid Persia: Emperor Anastasius I sends a Byzantine army (52,000 men) to Armenia, but is defeated. The Romans attempt an unsuccessful siege of the Persian-held city Amida, on the Tigris. King Kavadh I invades Osroene, and lays siege to the city of Edessa (Northern Mesopotamia).source
  • 504King Kavadh I hands over the fortress-city of Amida, and agrees to an armistice with the Byzantine Empire.source
  • 513King Kavadh I adopts the doctrine of the Mazdakites, and breaks the influence of the magnates' (nobility).source
  • 526Roman–Persian Wars: King Kavad I, assisted by his Arabian vassal, Al-Mundhir III, begins a campaign in the Transcaucasus region and Upper Mesopotamia.source
  • 531King Kavad I, age 82, dies after a 43-year reign. Khosrau I, his favourite son, is proclaimed successor over his elder brothers.source
  • 531Kavadh I, king of the Persian Empire (b. 449)source

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