28 February

Raymond de Toulouse dies while besieging Tripoli;

27 August

Franks defeat another Egyptian army at the second Battle of Ramla.

1108

September

Prince Bohemond of Antioch acknowledges Byzantine suzerainty over Antioch.

1109

26 June

Tripoli surrenders to the Franks; Genoese and Provencal support decisive; population spared;

County of Tripoli established.

1110

13 May

Beirut falls to the Franks with Genoese and Pisan support;

5 December

Sidon surrenders to the Franks, the latter supported by a Norwegian fleet under King Sigurd; population spared.

1113

15 February

The Hospitallers established as an independent order by Pope Paschal II;

Frankish expansion to the Jordan halted by defeat of Baldwin II at Sinnabra.

1114

Earliest date for the founding of the Knights Templar.

1118

2 April

Death of Baldwin I;

14 April

Consecration of Baldwin de Bourcq as Baldwin II;

25 December

Coronation of Baldwin and his Armenian wife Morphia as king and queen of Jerusalem.

1119

28 June

Defeat of Frankish army under the prince of Antioch at the ‘Field of Blood’.

1123

18 April

Baldwin II captured by Balak in Edessa;

May

Venetian fleet (120 strong) destroys the Fatimid navy; Franks defeat Egyptian army assault on Jaffa;

Venetians then join the siege of Tyre, providing a blockade by sea.