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1 day ago · Constantine I [g] (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
- 25 July 306 – 22 May 337
- Helena
1 day ago · The siege of Constantinople began in April 1453, with the Ottomans launching a relentless assault on the city's defenses. The Byzantines, led by Emperor Constantine XI, fought valiantly, but they were greatly outnumbered and outgunned. The walls of Constantinople, once thought to be impenetrable, were no match for the Ottoman cannons.
5 days ago · Heraclius (born c. 575, Cappadocia—died Feb. 11, 641, Constantinople) was an Eastern Roman emperor (610–641) who reorganized and strengthened the imperial administration and the imperial armies but who, nevertheless, lost Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Byzantine Mesopotamia to the Arab Muslims.
- Enno Franzius
3 days ago · The Emperor Hadrian’s famous wall was begun to be built in 122 to serve as the northern border of the Roman province of Brittania. As Christianity spread throughout the empire, it came to ...
2 days ago · After the conquest, Mehmed claimed the title caesar of Rome (Ottoman Turkish: قیصر روم, romanized: qayṣar-i Rūm), based on the fact that Constantinople had been the seat and capital of the surviving Eastern Roman Empire since its consecration in 330 AD by Emperor Constantine I.
- August 1444 – September 1446
- Murad II
- 3 February 1451 – 3 May 1481
- Murad II
1 day ago · After Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) defeated his rival Maxentius (r. 306–312) at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in October 312, he and his co-emperor, Licinius, issued the Edict of Milan (313), which permitted all religions, including Christianity, to be tolerated.
5 days ago · Irene (born c. 752, Athens—died Aug. 9, 803, Lesbos) was a Byzantine ruler and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church who was instrumental in restoring the use of icons in the Eastern Roman Empire.