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Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II calls for fighting men from the West to go to the assistance of the beleaguered Eastern Roman Empire and liberate Jerusalem from Muslim rule.

1096

 

Crusading enthusiasm results in massacres of Jews in many cities;

 

Spring

The ‘Peoples’ Crusade’ departs from Western Europe;

 

August

Main crusade under the papal legate Adhemar departs Western Europe for Constantinople; ‘Peoples’ Crusade’ crosses the Bosphorus and enters Turkish-held territory;

 

September-October

Turks obliterate the ‘Peoples’ Crusade’ led by Peter the Hermit;

 

 

Contingents of the main crusade begin arriving in Constantinople.

1097

19 June

Crusaders in cooperation with the Byzantines recapture Nicaea;

 

1 July

Crusaders defeat Turks at the Battle of Dorylaeum;

 

21 October

Crusaders begin siege of Muslim-controlled Antioch.

1098

March

Baldwin of Boulogne becomes Count of Edessa;

 

3 June

Antioch falls to the Crusaders;

 

August

The Fatimids recapture Jerusalem.

1099

15 July

Crusaders capture Jerusalem;

 

22 July

Godfrey de Bouillon elected ‘Protector of the Holy Sepulchre’;

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