Byzantium (In Our Time)
500 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the culture, history and legacy of the eastern Byzantine Empire. In 455 with the Barbarians at the gate, through the gate and sacking the city of Rome “the wide arch of the ranged empire” finally began to fall...Or did it? In AD 395 the Emperor Theodosius had divided the vast Roman Empire between his two sons.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 500
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Muhammad (570)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Sui dynasty (581)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Hagia Sophia completed (537)
- Council of Chalcedon (451)