6th Century and Beyond
- 533– Justinian I begins to restore the empire in the west; Belisarius defeats the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum and the Battle of Tricamarum
- 536– Belisarius recaptures Rome from the Ostrogoths
- 552– Narses defeats the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Taginae
- 553– Narses defeats the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Mons Lactarius
- 568– The Lombards invade Italy; no further attempts to restore the empire
- 607– Emperor Phocas donates The Pantheon to the Pope and has a column erected in the Forum.
- 663– Constans II is the last emperor to visit Rome, and the city gradually slips out of imperial control.
- 1204– Crusaders sack Constantinople and establish the Latin Empire of Constantinople.
- 1261– Michael VIII Palaiologos recovers Constantinople from the Latin Empire.
- 1453– Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks. End of the Byzantine/eastern Roman Empire.
- 1461– Trebizond falls to the Ottoman Turks. End of the Empire of Trebizond and of the last remnant of the Roman Empire.
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