Byzantine Calendar - Key Dates According To The Byzantine Era

Key Dates According To The Byzantine Era

• 1 AM (5509 BC) – Creation of the world.
• 4755 AM (753 BC) – Rome was founded.
• 4841 AM (667 BC) – City of Byzantium was founded.
• 5464 AM (44 BC) – Julius Caesar becomes dictator of the Roman Republic
• 5481 AM (27 BC ) – Augustus becomes first Roman Emperor
• c. 5504 AM (4 BC) – Jesus of Nazareth was born.
• c. 5538 AM (AD 30) – Jesus Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.
• 5838 AM (AD 330) – Constantinople (Greek rendered in Latin alphabet: Constantinopolis) becomes the new capital of the Roman Empire.
• 5888 AM (AD 380) – Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire by decree of Theodosius I.
• 5903 AM (AD 395) – Death of Theodosius I divides the Roman Empire into the East Roman Empire and the West Roman Empire.
• 5984 AM (AD 476) – Final collapse of the West Roman Empire
• 6045 AM (AD 537) – Justinian I decrees that the indiction must be included when designating a Byzantine year.
• 6118 AM (AD 610) – East Roman Empire changed its official language from Latin to Greek; historians and cartographers refer to the "East Roman Empire" as the "Byzantine Empire" after this date. (Coincidentally, this was also the year of the first revelation to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel of the content of the Koran.)
• 6200 AM (AD 692) – Quinisext Council; first known official use of the Byzantine Era for dating; eschatological significance with this date connected with the building of the Dome of the Rock, and the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius detailing a prophecy of the last emperor.
• 6388 AM (AD 880) – This year was significant eschatologically because it was 888 years from the Incarnation (based on 5500 AM as the date of the Incarnation).
• 6496 AM (AD 988) – Official use of the Byzantine Era by Basil II; Conversion of the Rus, Byzantine Era adopted in Russia.
• 6500 AM (AD 992) – Eschatological forecasts expected the end to occur in 6500 AM, the half-point of the 7th millennium.
• 6533 AM (AD 1025) – The conventional Byzantine date for the millennium anniversary of the Resurrection, with eschatological connections (based on 5533 AM as the date of the Resurrection).
• 6562 AM (AD 1054) – Great Schism.
• 6579 AM (AD 1071) – Romanos Diogenes loses the Battle of Manzikert – most of Anatolia is lost to the Seljuq Turks by 6589 AM (AD 1081). Beginning of the territorial decline of the Byzantine Empire.
• 6712 AM (AD 1204) – Sack of Constantinople by soldiers of the Fourth Crusade; Latin Empire established.
• 6769 AM (AD 1261) – Byzantine Empire re-established by Michael VIII Palaiologos.
• 6961 AM (AD 1453) – Fall of Constantinople and final collapse of the Byzantine Empire. The civilization of Rome in its most inclusive sense, including both Ancient Rome and New Rome (Constantinople), lasted a total of 2,206 years.
• 7000 AM (AD 1492) – Millennialist movements in Moscow due to the 7000th year of the church calendar.
• 7018 AM (AD 1510) – Russian monk Philotheus of Pskov declares Muscovy to be the Third Rome.
• 7338 AM (AD 1830) – Greece attains independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the London Protocol.
• 7427 AM-7430 AM (AD 1919–AD 1922) Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos attempts to implement the Megali Idea (recapture of Constantinople from Turkey) in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), but in the course of the war Venizelos loses the election of 1920 and goes into exile and Greece is defeated by Turkey.