* 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

* 1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.

* Eirene Angelina, who married ( 1 ) Andronikos Kontostephanos, and ( 2 ) Alexios Palaiologos, by whom she was the grandmother of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

He was the last Byzantine Emperor to reign in Constantinople before the establishment of the Latin Empire, which controlled the city for the next 57 years, until it was recovered by the Nicaean Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

He was the eldest surviving son of Michael VIII Palaiologos and Theodora Doukaina Vatatzina, grandniece of John III Doukas Vatatzes.

He was acclaimed co-emperor in 1261, after his father Michael VIII recovered Constantinople from the Latin Empire, but he was crowned only in 1272.

Although besieged on numerous occasions by various peoples, it was taken only in 1204 by the army of the Fourth Crusade, in 1261 by Michael VIII, and in 1453 by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.

In 1261, Constantinople was captured from its last Latin ruler, Baldwin II, by the forces of the Nicaean emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus.

Although Constantinople was retaken by Michael VIII, the Empire had lost many of its key economic resources, and struggled to survive.

When Michael VIII captured the city, its population was 35, 000 people, but, by the end of his reign, he had succeeded in increasing the population to about 70, 000 people.

At the insistence of Charles, Martin IV excommunicated the Roman Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, who stood in the way of Charles's plans to restore the Latin Empire of the East that had been established in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.

The latter proposed a Franco-Mongol alliance between his forces, those of the West, and the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaeologos ( Abaqa's father-in-law ).

The Latin Empire of Constantinople came to an end with the capture of the city by the Greeks ( led by their Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos ) a fortnight before Urban IV's election.

He was proceeding to send legates to Michael VIII Palaeologus, the Byzantine emperor, in connection with the recent decisions of the Second Council of Lyons, when he died at Rome.

* 1261 — Byzantines under Michael VIII retake Constantinople from the Crusaders and Venice.

* Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor -( December 11 )

* Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor ( d. 1282 )

* 1261 – July 25 – The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.

* 1282 – December 11 – Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus of the Byzantine Empire ( b. 1225 )

Michael VIII Palaeologus was greatly alarmed at the prospect: he wrote to King Louis, suggesting that he was open to a voluntary union of the Roman and Latin churches, and pointing out the interference a descent on Constantinople would pose to Louis ' own crusading plans.

* The Constantinople suburb of Beyoğlu ( then known as Pera ) is given to the Republic of Genoa by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, in return for Genoa's support of the Empire after the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople.

* August 15 – Michael VIII Palaeologus is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.

John travelled to Sicily to stir up the discontents in favour of Peter and thence to Constantinople to procure the support of Michael VIII Palaeologus.

His regent was originally the bureaucrat George Mouzalon, but that position was usurped by the aristocrat Michael Palaiologos, who later made himself co-emperor as Michael VIII on January 1, 1259.

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Patrese entered 257 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix and started 256 races making him the third most experienced F1 driver in history, after Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher.

He quickly secured the loyalty of the city, and when Manuel entered the capital in August 1143, he was crowned by the new Patriarch, Michael Kourkouas.

At an early age he joined the order of the Camaldolese ( part of the Benedictine monastic family ) and entered the Monastery of San Michael in Murano, near Venice.

When Michael VIII entered the city, its population was people, but he succeeded in increasing it to people by the end of his reign.

They married in contravention of church canons, as Maria was still at that time, the wife of Michael VII who had entered the monastery of Stoudios.

In the 55th Parliament, only Peter Tapsell ( serving since 1959 ) has served longer, and Gerald Kaufman, Dennis Skinner and Michael Meacher all entered Parliament on the same day.

His baptismal name was Constantine ; Michael was the monastic name he chose when he entered a monastery later in life.

Upon the recovery of The City from the Latin Empire by Michael VIII Palaeologus, Pachymeres settled in Constantinople, studied law, entered the church, and subsequently became chief advocate of the church and chief justice of the imperial court.

In December 2003, Michael Davis entered a studio in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, to produce Swedish rock band Dollhouse's debut-album " The Rock and Soul Circus " ( Released 2004 on Dim Mak Records ).

It entered into long term relationships with British manufacturers, and sold clothes and food under the " St Michael " brand, that was introduced 1928 ).

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Thus, on 25 July 1261, with most of the Latin troops away on campaign, the Nicaean general Alexios Strategopoulos found an unguarded entrance to the city, and entered it with his troops, restoring the Byzantine Empire for his master, Michael VIII Palaiologos.

At the age of fifteen, Michael Servetus entered the service of a Franciscan friar by the name of Juan de Quintana.

In 1602 he entered the University of Leuven, then in the throes of an ideological conflict between the Jesuit – or scholastic – party and the followers of Michael Baius, who swore by St. Augustine.

As they entered the fourth heaven they were met by Michael and Gabriel ; legends say that the battle was very evenly balanced, but in the end it was the angels who had to fall back.

JINSA's advisory board includes such notable figures as Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, and R. James Woolsey, while Vice President Dick Cheney, former U. S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton, and former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith were all on JINSA's Board of Advisors before they entered the Bush administration.

In 1979, Schenker entered upon a solo career by founding the Michael Schenker Group ( MSG ).

Their sons Leo and Michael also entered the family business after making their own forays into children's publishing as an author and illustrator, respectively.

He transposed his first and middle names when he entered show business because another actor named Michael Hall was already a member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Michael Clemons entered his first full season as a head coach in 2001, after 13 seasons as an Argo player and 12 team records to his credit, the Argos went about the business of getting the team back into the post-season.

Educated at Sunningdale School and Eton College, Prince Michael entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in January 1961, where he was commissioned into the 11th Hussars ( Prince Albert's Own ), in 1963.

In August 1982, an Atlanta Police Department officer entered the bedroom of Michael Hardwick to serve a summons for throwing out a beer bottle which Hardwick had thrown in a trash can located directly outside of the gay bar in which he worked ; the specific citation was for public drinking.