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Chronological Table
1204 March: Partitio Romaniae; agreement between the crusaders and the
Venetians for the division of the lands and assets of the Byzantine
Empire.
12 April: Constantinople falls to the Fourth Crusade.
8–14 May: Venetian clergy in Constantinople choose 15 canons for
St Sophia. They pledge to appoint only Venetians to the cathedral clergy.
They also choose the Venetian Tomasso Morosini as the first Latin
patriarch. He was a papal subdeacon studying in Ravenna. The pope
declared this election uncanonical.
9 May: Baldwin of Flanders elected first Latin emperor of
Constantinople.
16 May: Baldwin crowned in St Sophia by Nivelon de Cherissy, bishop
of Soissons.
September/October: partition of the Byzantine Empire after the March
agreement implemented.
October/November: Boniface of Montferrat conquers Boeotia and
Attica.
November/December: Jacques d’Avesnes conquers Euboea and
Boniface begins the sieges of Akrocorinth and Nauplia.
1205 21 January: Morosini confirmed as first Latin patriarch of
Constantinople by Innocent iii.
March: Innocent iii ordains Morosini and consecrates him bishop.
Spring: William de Champlitte and Geoffrey de Villehardouin leave
Nauplia with a force of 100 knights and 400 sergeants to conquer the
north and west of the Peloponnese between Corinth and Messenia.
30 March: Morosini formally consecrated as Latin patriarch in Rome.
April: Baldwin of Flanders captured by the Bulgarians near Adrianople.
His brother, Henry of Flanders appointed Regent or bailli of the Latin
Empire. Many Latins return to the West from Constantinople.
May: Innocent iii calls for a crusade to aid the Latin Empire.
May: Battle of Koundoura in Messenia; the Franks secure their
conquests in the Peloponnese from an Epirote challenge.
15 May: Benedict of Santa Susanna appointed papal legate to the Latin
Empire.
May: procedure for the election of future Latin patriarchs of
Constantinople confirmed by the pope.
1 June: death of Doge Enrico Dandolo, leader of the Venetians on the
Fourth Crusade. He is buried in St Sophia.