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→Early Byzantine era (451-843): 500;557;
*493 Death of [[Daniel the Stylite]] an ascetic who lived for 33 years on a pillar near the city of Constantinople.
*ca. 500 [[w:Zosimus|Zosimus]], pagan Greek historian writes ''Historia Nova ("New History")'', a history of the Roman Empire to 410 AD, with an anti-Christian view offering a different interpretation to church affairs than from Christian sources; [[Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite]]'s writing corpus including the ''Divine Names'', ''Mystical Theology'', ''Celestial Hierarchy'', and ''Ecclesiastical Hierarchy'' influences the development of Byzantine mystical spirituality and hesychasm through [[Maximus the Confessor]], [[Symeon the New Theologian]], and [[Gregory Palamas]].
*ca.500-550 [[w:Andreas of Caesarea|Andreas of Caesarea]], Bp. of Caesarea in Cappadocia, writes the oldest surviving commentary on the [[Book of Revelation]].
*502 Start of [[w:Byzantine-Sassanid Wars|Byzantine-Sassanid wars]], lasting until 562.
*518 Patriarch [[John II of Constantinople]] is addressed as ''"Oikoumenikos Patriarches"'' (Ecumenical Patriarch); the Byzantine government begins persecution of non-Chacedonians in the east, especially in Mesopotamia.
*553 Ostrogoth kingdom in Italy conquered by the Byzantine Empire after the [[w:Battle of Mons Lactarius|Battle of Mons Lactarius]].
*556 Completion of [[Justinian the Great]]'s fortification [[St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai)|monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai]]; a chapel and anchorites had already been there at least since the 4th century when [[Egeria]] visited in ca. 385.
*557 Death of [[w:Cyriacus the Anchorite|Cyriacus the Anchorite]].
*562 [[w:Isidore of Miletus|Isidorus of Miletus]] completes repair on dome of [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]], now higher by 20 feet than the [[w:Anthemius of Tralles|Anthemian]] original.
*563 Re-consecration of [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]] in Constantinople after its dome is rebuilt.
*617 Persian Army conquers Chalcedon after a long siege.
*620 Slavs attack Thessaloniki.
*626 [[Akathist|Akathist Hymn]] to the [[|Theotokos|Virgin Mary]] written, after Constantinople liberated from a [[w:Siege of Constantinople (626)|siege]] of 80,000 Avars, Slavs and the Persian fleet]].
*627 Emperor [[Heraclius]] decisively defeats Sassanid Persians at [[w:Battle of Nineveh (627)|Battle of Nineveh]], recovering [[True Cross]] and breaking power of the Sassanid dynasty.
*630 Second [[Elevation of the Holy Cross]], on [[March 21]], 630 AD, when Emperor Heraclius entered Jerusalem amidst great rejoicing, and together with Patriarch Zacharios (609-633), transferred the [[True Cross|Cross of Christ]] with great solemnity into the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)||temple of the Resurrection]]; it is the first and only time a Byzantine emperor sets foot in the [[Holy Land]].