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List of Byzantine Emperors

This is a list of the Emperors of the East Roman or Byzantine Empire. This list does not include numerous co-emperors who never attained sole or senior status as rulers, nor the various usurpers or rebels who claimed the imperial title .This list begins with Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman Emperor, who founded Constantinople, and...

Timeline of Events

435

8.3.435

Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

963

7.2.963

The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.

1056

8.31.1056

Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the throne, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.