The dating of these events is disputed . Choniates records the date of the clash between the supporters of the '' Caesarissa '' and the imperial troops as 2 May on the 15th indiction , i.e. 2 May 1182 , but as Varzos points out , this is clearly an error , as this was the date of the Massacre of the Latins . Many modern scholars have therefore interpreted the date as 2 May 1181 , but this contradicts the indiction dating given by Choniates . Among the scholars who accept the dating of these events to 1181 , several , including the English translator of Choniates , Harry Magoulias , place the date of the intended coup on 7 February , but as Choniates ' German editor Jean-Louis Van Dieten points out , for the year 1181 the correct date of the feast described by Choniates was 21 February . According to this chronology , the condemnation of the conspirators took place on 1 March , and the clashes took place on 2 May . The historian Oktawiusz Jurewicz , in his study on Andronikos I Komnenos , placed the events in 1182 . As other events took place soon after , he proposed that the uprising and reconciliation all took place in February 1182 , with the date for the original , aborted coup on 13 February
Massacre of the Latins
Massacre of the Latins
Alexios Komnenos (protosebastos)