Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria complete
1018
Four years after Kleidion, Basil II entered Ohrid and received the submission of the last Bulgarian notables. The First Bulgarian Empire, after three and a half centuries, was extinguished by his patient grinding. Basil rode in triumph through Athens, dedicating his victory to the Virgin at the Parthenon. Bulgaria would not regain independence for nearly two centuries, until the Asen brothers rebelled in 1185.
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Also in 1018 (4 other events on record)
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.