Byzantine Istanbul · event 16 of 18

1204 AD

The Byzantine Empire declined in power and the city of Constantinople was taken over by the Latin Empire when they ransacked the city as a part of the Fourth Crusade. Count Baldwin of Flanders was chosen to be the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

The Byzantine era

  1. 330 AD
  2. 337 AD
  3. 413 AD
  4. 447 AD
  5. 476 AD
  6. 527 AD
  7. 532 AD
  8. 537 AD
  9. 726 AD
  10. 780 AD
  11. 845 AD
  12. 860 AD
  13. 1018 AD
  14. 1071 AD
  15. 1096 AD
  16. 1204 AD
  17. 1261 AD
  18. 1347

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