(2 october 829:)
(‘Theophilos’ succeeds his father ‘Michael II’ as ‘Byzantine Emperor’)
(he was 16 years old)
(22 july 838:)
“the battle of anzen”
(the Byzantine emperor ‘Theophilos’ suffers a heavy defeat by the ‘Abbasids’)
(he was 25 years old)
(“Theophilos” (Greek: Θεόφιλος; sometimes Latinized or Anglicized as Theophilus; 813 – 20 January 842 AD) was the Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842)
(he died at age 29)
(he was the second emperor of the Amorian dynasty and the last emperor to support “iconoclasm”)
(‘theophilos’ personally led the armies in his lifelong war against the ‘arabs’, beginning in 831)