Zeno was Byzantine emperor from 474 until 491 CE. An ethnic Isaurian, Zeno was repeatedly criticized as an outsider during his reign, which was full of rebellions and attacks by the Ostrogoths. He is best known for his failed attempt to compromise between Chalcedonian Christians and the Monophysite Christians, the Henotikon, which led to the Acacian Schism with Rome, and for sending Theodoric the Great to conquer Italy.
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474 CE - 491 CEReign of Byzantine emperor Zeno.
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475 CE - 476 CERevolt of Basiliscus against Zeno in the Byzantine Empire.
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479 CERevolt by Marcian against Zeno in the Byzantine Empire.
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481 CETheodoric Strabo marches on Constantinople.
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481 CETheodoric Strabo dies when his horse throws him onto a spear.
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482 CEPatriarch Acacius and Zeno release the Henotikon, an attempted religious compromise, which creates the Acacian Schism with Rome.
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484 CE - 519 CEAcacian Schism between the Byzantine Empire and the Pope in Rome.
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c. 484 CE - c. 485 CERebellion of Illus and Leontios against Emperor Zeno in the Byzantine Empire.
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488 CE - 493 CETheodoric the Great conquers Italy from Odoacer.
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491 CEDeath of Byzantine emperor Zeno.
