1204
Constantinople. Oleksa reigning in Tsargrad, during the reign of his brother Isak whom having blinded, he himself became Tsar, shut up his [Isaac's] son Oleksa in high walls under guard, so that he might not get out. Franks and all their Voyevocias conceived lust for the gold and silver, which Isakovits promised them, and forgot the commands of Tsar and Pope. First having come to the Sound, they broke the iron locks, and having advanced to the town, they hurled fire into the churches, in four places. Then Tsar Oleksa having perceived the flames, did not take up arms against them. Having summoned his brother Isak, whom he had blinded, he set him on the throne and said: " Since thou hast acted thus, brother, forgive me; this is thy throne "; and fled out of the town, and the town was burnt... churches in the town and outside the town and monasteries in the town and outside the town they plundered all—we cannot tell their number, nor their beauty. They robbed the monks and nuns and priests and some of them they beat to death ; and the Greeks and the Varangians, who had remained they drove out of the town.
Constantinople falls to the 4th Crusade
Galicia–Volhynia's principal captured Kiev
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