Byzantine Istanbul · event 7 of 18

532 AD

A series of riots known as the Nika Riots broke out between the Emperor Justinian I and the general public of Constantinople, which was subdued when almost 30,000 rioters were killed in the Hippodrome. It was in the same year that the construction of the Hagia Sofia began after a church built on the same site was destroyed by fire during the riots.

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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