Death of Manuel I Komnenos
September 24, 1180
The charismatic, Latin-loving Byzantine emperor died leaving an eleven-year-old heir and an empire overstretched by forty years of campaigning. His cousin Andronikos would seize power two years later in a bloodbath. Byzantine recovery staggered and fell. Manuel's death ended the last sustained period of Byzantine military and diplomatic assertiveness, and the empire entered a long decline from which it would never fully recover.
In context
Also in 1180 (4 other events on record)
- Battle of Uji and start of the Genpei War · East Asia · War
- Philip II crowned King of France · Europe · Politics
- Toltec Tula collapses · North America · Politics
- Yoritomo raises the eastern war banner · East Asia · War
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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