Constantine VI Timeline

Empress Irene rules as regent for Byzantine emperor Constantine VI.

Reign of Byzantine emperor Constantine VI (with Empress Irene as regent 780-790 CE).

Byzantine emperor Constantine VI marries Mary of Amnia.

The Ecumenical Council of Nicaea rules an end to iconoclasm in the Byzantine Christian Church.

Byzantine emperor Constantine VI exiles his mother and regent Empress Irene.

Constantine VI divorces Mary of Amnia and then marries his mistress Theodote, causing the so-called Moechian Controversy, which divides the Byzantine Church.

Byzantine empress Irene blinds and kills her son Constantine VI.