Nikephoros II Phokas Timeline

The future Nikephoros II Phokas becomes the head Byzantine military commander, replacing his father Bardas.

John Tzimiskes is appointed domestikos of the East in the Byzantine Empire.

The Byzantine Empire reconquers Crete from the Arabs under Nikephoros Phokas, the future Emperor Nikephoros II.

Byzantine forces under Nikephoros Phokas sack Anazarbos and Hierapolis in Syria.

Romanos II dies.

Nikephoros II Phokas becomes Byzantine emperor.

Nikephoros II Phokas marries Theophano, the widow of Romanos II.

Reign of Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas.

Byzantine forces are defeated and forced out of Sicily by Muslim troops.

Sayf al-Dawla, the Hamdanid Emir of Mosul, dies.

Nikephoros II Phokas marches Byzantine forces as far south as Lebanon.

Rus forces under Sviatoslav raid deep into Bulgaria, effectively occupying it by the next year.

Byzantine forces under Nikephoros II Phokas take the important Lebanese port city of Laodikeia.

Byzantine forces recapture the city of Antioch from the Arabs.

John Tzimiskes murders Nikephoros II Phokas in the imperial Byzantine palace in Constantinople.