Leo VI Timeline

Byzantine emperor Basil I crowns his son Leo co-emperor (future Leo VI).

Byzantine emperor Basil I is (probably) murdered by his son and successor Leo VI.

Reign of Byzantine emperor Leo VI.

Symeon, Tsar of the Bulgars, invades Thrace, then Byzantine territory.

Byzantine emperor Leo VI marries Zoe Zautsina, his second marriage.

Byzantine emperor Leo VI marries Eudokia Vaiana, his third marriage.

Byzantine Taormina on Sicily falls to Arab attacks.

Leo of Tripoli leads an Arab force which sacks Byzantine Thessaloniki and Abydos.

A Byzantine army sacks Arab-held Tarsus.

Byzantine emperor Leo VI marries Zoe Karvounopsina, his fourth marriage.

Byzantine emperor Leo VI has his son, the future Constantine VII, baptised.

Byzantine emperor Leo VI dismisses the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nicholas I Mystikos.

Oleg, Prince of Kiev, attacks the Byzantine capital Constantinople.

A Byzantine fleet is destroyed by an Arab force off the coast of Chios.

Byzantine emperor Leo VI dies.