Theodora
500–548* · Person
From actress to Byzantine empress: Justinian's co-ruler, who stiffened his nerve in the Nika riots and advanced women's rights.
On these timelines: Women in history, Roman History, People, Master, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey
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- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
- Rosa Parks (1913)
Around 500
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Muhammad (570)
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476)
- Sack of Rome by Visigoths (410)
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Sui dynasty reunifies China (581)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)