Constantinople
Episcopal see · Burial place · Council site · School or library · Imperial capital
capital of the Eastern Roman, Latin and Ottoman Empires, currently Istanbul, Turkey
Approximate centre: 41.0122, 28.9760 · Pleiades 520998
What this place is
- School or library — the imperial library and the auditorium Theodosius II endowed in 425, with its chairs of Greek and Latin — and the copyists who kept the Greek fathers in circulation
- Imperial capital — the emperor's own city from its dedication in 330, and the capital of the eastern empire for the whole of the rest of this era
Seat of
Who is recorded here
- Andrew the Apostle ministry · AD 56
- Julian the Apostate birth · AD 331
- Arius death · AD 336
- Aemilius Magnus Arborius death · AD 337
- Alexander of Constantinople death · AD 337
- Hannibalianus death · AD 337
- Ulfilas residence · AD 337
- Eusebius of Nicomedia death · AD 341
- Evagrius of Constantinople birth · AD 350
- Aetius of Antioch death · AD 367
- Olympias the Deaconess birth · AD 368
- Eudoxius of Antioch death · AD 370
- Eutyches birth · AD 378
- Jerome residence · AD 380
- Lucius of Alexandria death · AD 380
- Socrates of Constantinople birth · AD 380
- Meletius of Antioch death · AD 381
- Isaac of Dalmatia death · AD 383
- Ulfilas death · AD 383
- Honorius birth · AD 384
- Gregory of Nazianzus burial · AD 389
- Apollinaris of Laodicea death · AD 390
- Theodosius I burial · AD 395
- Nectarius of Constantinople death · AD 397
- John Chrysostom ministry · AD 398
- Pulcheria birth · AD 399
- Theodosius II birth · AD 401
- Arsacius of Tarsus death · AD 405
- Arcadius death · AD 408
- Proclus birth · AD 412
- Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople death · AD 425
- Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople death · AD 427
- Rufius Antonius Agrypnius Volusianus death · AD 437
- Nicarete death · AD 440
- Socrates of Constantinople death · AD 440
- Proclus of Constantinople death · AD 446
- Theodosius II death · AD 450
- Pulcheria death · AD 453
- Marcian death · AD 457
- Anatolius of Constantinople death · AD 458
- Leo I death · AD 474
- Acacius of Constantinople death · AD 489
- Fravitta of Constantinople death · AD 490
- Zeno death · AD 491
- Caelestius death · AD 500
- Anastasius I Dicorus death · AD 518
- Justin I death · AD 527
- Agapetus I death · AD 536
- Thomas of Edessa death · AD 540
- Sergius of Tella death · AD 547
- Menas of Constantinople death · AD 552
- Romanos the Melodist death · AD 556
- Justinian I burial · AD 565
- Justinian I death · AD 565
- Hovhannès II Gabeghian death · AD 573
- Paul the Black death · AD 581
- Eutychius of Constantinople death · AD 582
- John IV of Constantinople death · AD 595
- John IV of Constantinople birth · AD 600
- Licinian of Cartagena death · AD 602
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What happened here
- Dedication of Constantinople AD 330
- Ulfilas translates the Bible into Gothic AD 350
- Julian's pagan restoration AD 361
- Valens is killed at Adrianople AD 378
- Gregory takes the Nicene remnant at Constantinople AD 379
- Evagrius is made archdeacon at Constantinople AD 380
- First Council of Constantinople AD 381
- John is made bishop of Constantinople AD 398
- Cassian is ordained deacon by Chrysostom AD 401
- Olympias before the prefect AD 404
- Nestorius preaches against Theotokos AD 428
- Socrates writes the Ecclesiastical History AD 440
- Sozomen writes the Ecclesiastical History AD 443
- Eutyches condemned at the Home Synod AD 448
- Daniel takes up the pillar AD 460
- Acacian Schism AD 484
- Romanos writes the kontakia AD 518
- Consecration of Hagia Sophia AD 537
- Second Council of Constantinople AD 553
- Third Council of Constantinople AD 681
- Quinisext Council (in Trullo) AD 691
- First Iconoclasm AD 726
- Second Iconoclasm AD 814
- Triumph of Orthodoxy AD 843
- Council of Constantinople (861) AD 861
- Photian Schism AD 863
- Fourth Council of Constantinople (Ignatian) AD 869
- Council of Constantinople (Photian) AD 879
- Baptism of Olga of Kiev AD 957
- The Great Schism AD 1054
In art
About the place
Constantinople, the modern Istanbul, was the capital of the Roman and Byzantine Empire from 330 until its takeover by the Ottoman Empire in 1453. After this, it continued to function as the Ottoman capital until the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate in 1922.
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