Anastasios I ruled the Byzantine empire from 491 to 518 CE. Although his tax and monetary reforms were both popular and successful, the emperor could not repair the damaging split in the Christian Church created by his predecessors. He faced a major rebellion inside the empire and outside its borders, his military campaigns were as ineffective as his famous Long Wall in Thrace. Nevertheless, Anastasios did at least lay the foundations upon which the great Justinian I would build so spectacularly in the middle five decades of the 6th century CE.
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491 CE - 518 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I introduces the copper follis coin (288 are worth one gold nomisma).
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491 CE - 518 CEReign of Byzantine emperor Anastasios I.
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492 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I banishes the Isaurians from Constantinople.
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c. 493 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I builds the Long Wall in Thrace to protect Constantinople.
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497 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I recognises Theodoric as the King of Italy.
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498 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I abolishes the chrysargyron, an unpopular tax on business transactions.
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c. 504 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I retakes the fortress of Amida on the Persian frontier.
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505 CE - 507 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I builds a new fortress at Anastasiopolis (Dara) on the frontier with Persia.
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506 CEA peace treaty is signed between the Byzantine Empire and the Persians.
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507 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I sends Clovis I, the king of the Franks in Gaul, a fleet to aid his war with the Ostrogoths.
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513 CE - 515 CEVitalian leads a revolt in Byzantine nThrace.
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518 CEByzantine emperor Anastasios I dies of natural causes.
