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780 - 790Empress Irene rules as regent for Byzantine emperor Constantine VI.
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780 - 797Reign of Byzantine emperor Constantine VI (with Empress Irene as regent 780-790 CE).
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787Byzantine emperor Constantine VI marries Mary of Amnia.
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Sep 787The Ecumenical Council of Nicaea rules an end to iconoclasm in the Byzantine Christian Church.
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790Byzantine emperor Constantine VI exiles his mother and regent Empress Irene.
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795Constantine VI divorces Mary of Amnia and then marries his mistress Theodote, causing the so-called Moechian Controversy, which divides the Byzantine Church.
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797Byzantine empress Irene blinds and kills her son Constantine VI.