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The Sack of Constantinople that took place in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade caused the city to fall and to be established as the capital of the Latin Empire. It also sent the Byzantine imperial dynasty to exile, who founded the Empire of Nicaea. Constantinople came under Byzantine rule again in 1261 who ruled for nearly two centuries.
Battle of Constantinople: September – Byzantines defeat German crusaders and force them to cross to Asia Minor. Battle of Dorylaeum: 25 October – Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III. Siege of Lisbon: 25 October – Crusaders under Afonso I of Portugal capture Lisbon from the Almoravids. Battle of Ephesus
474 AD: Great Fire of Constantinople [1] 532 AD: Nika Riots and Fire of Constantinople; 537 AD: Completion of the Hagia Sophia by Justinian I [2] [3] [4] 626 AD: First siege of Constantinople; 674–678 AD: First Arab siege of Constantinople; 717–718 AD: Second Arab siege of Constantinople; 1204 AD: Sack of Constantinople; 1261 AD: Reconquest ...
Siege of Constantinople (626) Siege of Constantinople (674–678) Siege of Constantinople (717–718) Siege of Constantinople (821–822) Siege of Constantinople (860) Rus'–Byzantine War (941) Siege of Constantinople (1047) Siege of Constantinople (1203) Sack of Constantinople; Siege of Constantinople (1235) Siege of Constantinople (1260)
The struggle for Constantinople [1] [2] [3] was a complex series of conflicts following the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, fought between the Latin Empire established by the Crusaders, various Byzantine successor states, and foreign powers such as the Second Bulgarian Empire and Sultanate of Rum, for control of Constantinople and supremacy ...
List of battles of the Eighty Years' War (1566–1648); Lists of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815); List of American Civil War battles (1861–1865)
This category includes historical battles in which the Latin Empire (1204–1261) participated. ... Battle of Constantinople (1241) Siege of Constantinople (1260)
Battle or campaign Order of battle Date Crusades; Battle of Lepanto: Holy League and Ottoman fleets: October 7, 1571 Thirty Years' War; First Battle of Breitenfeld: Holy Roman Empire, Catholic League, Sweden, and Saxony: September 17, 1631 Battle of Rain: Sweden and the Catholic League: April 15, 1632 Second Battle of Breitenfeld