December
Third Crusade: crusaders approach Jerusalem, but stall.
1192
6 January
Third Crusade: crusaders abandon attempt to take Jerusalem; withdraw to the coast;
28 April
Conrad de Montferrat killed by assassins in Tyre;
5 May
Henri de Champagne marries Queen Isabella;
7-11 June
Third Crusade: crusaders make a second attempt to capture Jerusalem and again withdraw without a siege or assault;
27-30 July
Third Crusade: Saladin attacks and captures the city of Jaffa; citadel holds out;
1 August
Third Crusade: Richard comes to relief of Jaffa; retakes the city;
5 August
Third Crusade: Richard defeats Saladin’s army outside of Jaffa;
2 September
Third Crusade: three-year truce signed between Richard and Saladin; Treaty of Ramla;
September-October
Guy de Lusignan goes to Cyprus;
9 October
Richard departs the Holy Land.
1193
4 March
Saladin dies.
1194
Unification of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily under Henry VI of Hohenstaufen;
