Spring
Amalric visits Constantinople;
10 September
Saladin ends Fatimid caliphate; Egypt submits to Abbasid caliphate.
1174
15 May
Death of Nur ad-Din;
June
Sicilian fleet besieges Alexandria;
11 July
Death of Amalric;
15 July
Coronation of Baldwin IV;
28 October
Saladin seizes control of Damascus.
1176
July
Baldwin IV leads raids in the vicinity of Damascus and defeats Saracen forces under Saladin’s brother Turan Shah at Ayn al Jarr; release of Raynald de Chatillon;
17 September
Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine army under Emperor Manuel I at the Battle of Myriocephalon;
October or November
Marriage of Princess Sibylla to William ‘Longsword’ de Montferrat.
1177
June
Death of William de Montferrat, possibly from malaria;
August
Arrival of Philip, Count of Flanders, with large crusading force;
25 November
Baldwin IV decisively defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard following Saladin’s first invasion of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1178
