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1204 CE, May 16

Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople on May 16, 1204, as Baldwin I, after the Fourth Crusade's sack of the city; establishing Latin control over Byzantine lands, until 1261 when it was replaced by the Byzantine Empire under Michael VIII Palaiologos

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