Time Line of Byzantium

• town of Byzantium founded by the Greek sailor, Byzas (c. 700 B.C.)

• Constantinople becomes the capital of the Roman empire (330 A.D.)

• Attila the Hun bribed into sparing Constantinople from attack (447 A.D.)

• Justinian I becomes Emperor of Byzantium (527 A.D.)
• Belisarius, Byzantium general, conquers the Vandal kingdom (533 A.D.)
• Corpus of Civil Law published (534 A.D.)
• Belisarius, Byzantium general, captures Carthage (534 A.D.)
• Belisarius and Narses, Byzantium generals, conquer the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy (536-562 A.D.)
• Hagia Sophia, the Church of Holy Wisdom, completed by Emperor Justinian (537 A.D.)
• Belisarius, Byzantium general, recaptures Rome (539 A.D.)
• war between Byzantium and Persia (539-562 A.D.)
• Justinian conquers southern Spain (554 A.D.)
• war between Byzantium and Persia (572-591 A.D.)
• Emperor Maurice of Byzantium wars against the Avars (592-602 A.D.)

• Emperor Maurice of Byzantium is murdered as his army mutinees (602 A.D.)
• Emperor Heraclius of Byzantium invades Sassania (622 A.D.)
• Heraclius of Byzantium defeats a Sassanian army at Nineveh ending the war with Sassania (627 A.D.)
• Arab invasion into Byzantium territory begins (c. 630 A.D.)
• Arab attacks on Constantinople repulsed (674-678 A.D.)

• Basil I begins the Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium (867 A.D.)

• Oleg the Wise, the Swedish ruler of Kiev, bribed into not attacking Constantinople (907 A.D.)
• Rus vikings attack Constantinople (941 A.D.)
• Byzantium captures Crete from the Arabs (961 A.D.)

• Bulgaria becomes a province of Byzantium (1018 A.D.)
• Byzantine rule in lower Italy halted by the Normans (1059 A.D.)
• Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantines at Manzikert (1071 A.D.)
• Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, motivated by greed, invade Constantinople (1204 A.D.)
• Mehmet II, an Ottoman sultan, attacks Constantinople marking the end of Byzantium (1453 A.D.)