Leo I Timeline

Birth of Byzantine emperor Leo I.

Reign of Byzantine emperor Leo I.

Leo I is crowned by the Patriarch of Constantinople, the first Byzantine emperor to be crowned by a bishop.

Byzantine emperor Leo I gives his daughter Ariadne as a wife to the Isaurian chief Tarasicodissa (Zeno).

A Byzantine army led by Basiliscus is defeated by the Vandals in North Africa.

Byzantine emperor Leo I conspires to murder his rival the general Aspar.

Byzantine emperor Leo I dies of dysentery.