Ruler · 750 – 780

Leo IV the Khazar

Lived 750 – 780; ruler. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 775 – 780.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 750 – 780; 30 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 49th of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

45 before

Theodosius III715 – 717

Leo III the Isaurian717 – 741

Constantine V741 – 775

Leo IV the Khazar775 – 780

Constantine VI780 – 797

Irene of Athens797 – 802

Nikephoros I802 – 811

61 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 775 – 780 · 5 years · came to it aged 25

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; tuberculosis

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