Ruler · 958 – 1025

Basil II

Lived 958 – 1025. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 976 – 1025.

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Lived: 958 – 1025; 67 years
In office: 49 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: natural death; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 69th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

65 before

Romanos II959 – 963

Nikephoros II Phokas963 – 969

John I Tzimiskes969 – 976

Basil II976 – 1025

Constantine VIII1025 – 1028

Romanos III Argyros1028 – 1034

Michael IV the Paphlagonian1034 – 1041

41 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 976 – 1025 · 49 years · came to it aged 18

Left it: natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell

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