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Byzantine Empire

4th century

Year	Date	Event	Significance
330		Consecration of the city of Second Rome, better known as Constantinople, on the site of ancient Byzantium	Traditional start date of Byzantine history.
395		Death of Theodosius I	Permanent division of the Empire in eastern and western halves.

5th century

Year	Date	Event	Significance
410		Rome is captured by the Visigoths under Alaric I
428		The Vandals begin conquest of North Africa
474	17 November	Death of Leo II. His father and co-emperor Zeno becomes sole ruler
476		The last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus, is deposed by Odoacer	Conventional ending date of the Western Roman Empire.
491	11 April	Anastasius I is chosen as her husband and emperor by the Augusta Ariadne
492–497		Isaurian Revolt
493		Ostrogothic Kingdom founded in Italy by Theodoric.

6th century

Year	Date	Event	Significance

7th century

Year	Date	Event	Significance
602	November	Usurpation of Phocas, beginning of the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602-628	Beginning of a period of troubles
608–610		Revolt of Heraclius against Phocas
614		Persians conquer Jerusalem, Slavs take Salona
619–620		Sassanid conquest of Egypt
622		Heraclius carries the war from the Caucasus into Persia
626		Failed Avar-Persian siege of Constantinople
628		Battle of Ninevi, Heraclius defeats the Persians
636		Decisive Arab victory at the Battle of Yarmuk	Collapse of Byzantine field army, irreversible loss of Syria
641		Constans II ascends the throne
642		Alexandria falls to the Arabs	Completion of the Muslim conquest of Egypt
655		Decisive Arab naval victory at the Battle of the Masts	End of the undisputed Byzantine hegemony over the Mediterranean.
667		First mention of a theme
668		Constantine IV ascends the throne, against the usurpation of Saborios
668–669		First Arab expedition against Constantinople. The Arab troops reach Chalcedon.
674–678		First Arab Siege of Constantinople is repelled
681		Sixth Ecumenical Council condemns Monotheletism
681		Establishment of a Bulgar state south of the Danube is recognized	It will become the Empire's major European antagonist in the centuries to come.
685		Justinian II ascends the throne
692		Quinisext Council
695		Usurpation of Leontios and exile of Justinian II	Beginning of twenty years of instability.
697–698		Arabs capture Carthage and repel Byzantine attempts to recover it	End of the [{Exarchate of Ravenna]], the Maghreb is opened up to the Muslims.

8th century

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9th century

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10th century

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11th century

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12th century

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13th century

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14th century

Year	Date	Event	Significance
1341–1347		Civil war between John VI Kantakouzenos and the Regents of John V Palaiologos	Exhaustion of the Byzantine state. Establishment of the Serbian Empire by Stefan Dushan, who seizes Macedonia and Albania
1348		The Black Death arrives at Byzantium	Heavy death toll, Serbs take depopulated Epirus and Thessaly

15th century

Year	Date	Event	Significance
1402	July 20	Heavy Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Ankara	Weakening of the Ottoman state results in a half-century lease of life for Byzantium
1453	May 29	Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans	End of the Byzantine Empire
1460		Ottoman conquest of the Despotate of the Morea
1461		Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond

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Greek War of Independence

1821

Date	Event
19 March	The Congress of Laibach receives news of Ypsilantis' revolt
23 March	Kalamata falls to the Greeks. The revolution is proclaimed at Patras
27 March	Salona falls to the Greeks
10 April	Execution of Patriarch Gregory V in Constantinople
23–24 April	Battle of Alamana
8 May	The Battle of Gravia Inn stops Ottoman troops from advancing to the Peloponnese
12–13 May	Greek victory at the Battle of Valtetsi. The Greek blockade around Tripolitsa holds.
18 May	Battle of Doliana
26 May	Founding of the Peloponnesian Senate at Kaltetza
14 June	The revolution spreads to Crete
19 June	Decisive Ottoman victory at the Battle of Dragashani ends the revolt in the Danubian Principalities
9 July	Execution of the Archbishop of Cyprus and several other prelates
23 September	Fall of Tripolitsa cements the Greek revolt in the Peloponnese
4–9 November	Convention at Messolonghi, establishment of the Senate of Western Continental Greece
13 November	Fall of Arta to the Souliots
15–20 November	Assembly of Salona, establishment of the Areopagus of Eastern Continental Greece
20 December	Beginning of the First National Assembly at Epidaurus

1822

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1829

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