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2100 B.C.:
The Toreador Antediluvian Embraces Mikail in the city of Ebla.

550 B.C.:
The Cappadocian Byzar founds the colony of Byzantium. Mikail, now known as Beshter, visits the site.

309 B.C.:
Alexia Theusa visits Byzantium and is Embraced by Byzar.

58 B.C.:
Beshter and the Ventrue Methusulah Antonius become lovers.

65 A.D.:
Beshter Embraces the Roman satirist Petronius.

85:
Beshter converts to Christianity and is baptized as Michael.

152:
Michael encounters the Tzimisce Dracon. The two become lovers.

196:
Roman Emperor Septimus Severus razes Byzantium during a civil war with Pescenius Niger. During the assault, Alexia Theusa ambushes Byzar and the city's Cappadociaans, sending them into torpor.

312:
Constantine the Great, during his bid to become Roman Emperor, battles his rival Maxentius outside Rome. Michael, Antonius and the Dracon now call themselves the Triumvirate.

324:
Constantine defeats Licinius near Byzantium, cementing his claim to the imperial throne.

326:
Constantine founds New Rome on the site of Byzantium (later to be called Constantinople). The Triumvirate leaves Rome to take up residence in the new capital.

329:
Constantine's lieutenant Caius is Embraced by Antonius.

330:
New Rome becomes the empire's new capital.

337:
Constantine the Great dies. The Triumvirate holds the First Council. Magnus, a local Lasombra, pledges himself to the service of Michael.

476:
Rome falls to the barbarian Odoacen. Cainite refugees begin to arrive in Constantinople. The Second Council is held, forming the Trinity system of families. The Lasombra of Magnus and a group of Roman Brujah known as Lexor are made scions. Antonius extends protection to Alexia Theusa.

489:
Michael invites the Follower of Set Khaytall to found a scion family.

517:
Justinian becomes emperor and expands Byzantium's territories into North Africa and Italy. The Trinity system of families is spread across the empire. The monasteries overseen by the Dracon's Obertus Tzimisce are severely regulated.

537:
Hagia Sophia, the world's greatest Christian temple, is complted in Constantinople. Michael takes up residence.

555-65:
Justinian's rule ends in chaos as Constantinople's outlying territories are wrested away. Plagues weaken the empire.

565-600:
Plagues repeatedly strike Constantinople, allegedly spread by the Dracon.

566:
Antonius Embraces Belisarius, Justinian's leading general.

579:
Antonius' mortal rival Narses seeks out an Italian Lasombra and is Embraced. Narses is made responsible for the Italian territories of the empire.

602:
Phocas becomes emperor, beginning a reign of terror.

604:
Antonius' childe Septima Dominica Embraces her servant Nicepherus. Caius Embraces a magistrate named Epirus.

610:
Heraclius becomes emperor and renews the power of the monasteries, bolstering the Tzimisce power base.

620:
The Akoimetai monks serving the Dracon begin transcribing the contents of the Great Library of Alexandria.

626:
The Akoimetai monk Gregory is Embraced by an Alexandrian Ravnos.

632:
Gregory is adopted by the Antonian Ventrue.

642:
Alexandria falls to the Arabs and the Great Library is burned to the ground.

660:
Narses cuts ties with Constantinople and claims domain independently in Venice.

689:
To mend the rift between Antonius and the Dracon, Michael presents each with one of two young brothers, Gesu and Symeon, to raise and Embrace.

701:
The Dracon Embraces Gesu. Gesu falls into a deep torpor.

703:
Rising from torpor, Gesu Embraces Symeon, enraging Antonius.

704:
The Third Council is held to resolve the matter of Symeon's Embrace, but no resolution is reached.

717:
Leo III becomes emperor under the watchful eye of Antonius.

726:
Leo III launches Iconoclasm, calling for the destruction of all religious icons. Antonius calls for a Cainite Iconoclasm, aimed at the Tzimisce practice of blood cults. Byzantine society is divided. The Fourth Council is held. The Malachite Nosferatu are made scions of the Toreador. Caius and Septima propose Antonius' destruction. Michael and the Dracon acqueise.

797:
Caius becomes Basileus of the Antonian Ventrue with Septima as his second.

842-67:
To restore order, Michael rules directly as Emperor Michael III.

888:
The Dracon leaves Constantinople.

890:
The Fifth Council is held and recognizes Gesu and Symeon as leaders of the Tzimisce. Michael begins to feel the pull of madness and torpr, leaving nightly tasks to Petronius.

1001:
Septima Dominica is destroyed by witch-hunters.

1071:
The Seljuk Turks defeat the imperial army at Manzikert, stripping Byzantium of most of Asia Minor.

1073:
The Sixth Council is held and Belisarius returns to a position of power.

1081:
The Seventh Council is held. The family of Narses of Venice is made a scion of the Ventrue and is given trading privileges. Baron Feroux's Gangrel become the scions of the Tzimisce. Alexius I Comnenus becomes emperor.

1090-1125:
Narses' childe Alfonso serves as a Lasombra priest in Constantinople.

1096:
Soldiers on the First Crusade travel through Constantinople.

1140:
The Salubri Achmet arrives in Constantinople.

1143:
Emperor John II Comnenus, on campaign to Asia Minor, is killed by the Assamite Shabah.

1143-82:
Latin influence mounts under Emperor Manuel Comnenus.

1153:
Ducas Embraces former princess Anna Comnenus.

1185:
Riots targeting Latin residents break out in Constantinople. All Latin Cainites in the city are destroyed save for the Genoese Lasombra Gabriella and her mortal protege Lilian, who are sheltered by Symeon. The Eighth Council is held and the Ventrue Epirus and Brujah Tribonius are destroyed for inciting the riots; the Latin Quarter is made independent from the rule of the Trinity and is placed under the dominion of Bishop Alfonzo of Venice.

1185-97:
Cainites from across Europe begin to arrive at Constantinople, crowding the Latin Quarter.

1186:
The Nosferatu Fra Raymond and his brood arrive from the Crusader States and are hidden by the Malachite Nosferatu.

1188:
The Assamite Shabah arrives as an ambassador from Alamut.

1190:
Theresa Kymena, a rogue Tremere, arrives to study with Achmet.

1193:
The Brujah, Gangrel and Nosferaty of the city form the Covenant of Three to defend it.

1195:
Alexius III Angelus becomes emperor by blinding an d deposing his brother Isaac II.

1196:
Lilian, now Symeon's lover, is Embraced by Gesu.

1197:
Gabriella of Genoa is kidnapped by Shabah.

1198:
Innocent III becomes pope and calls for a Fourth Crusade.

1202:
Crusades gather in Venice and are greeted by Isaac II's son Alexius, who requests their aid in becoming emperor. The Venetians support his efforts in exchange for promises of riches.

1203:
The crusades conquer Constantinople and place Alexius IV as emperor.

1204:
The people of Constantinople revolt and the crusaders sack the city, starting a fire that burns for eight days. The Byzantine Empire is torn asunder and divided among the crusaders.