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Jan 1, 1096
The Firts Crusade
The First Crusade started. Armed forces gathered at Constantinople to embark on the First Crusade.
Was a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands -
Jun 3, 1098
Captured of Antioch
Bohemond I, elder son of Robert Guiscard, led the capture of Antioch. -
Jun 28, 1098
Battle of Orontes
The Battle of Orontes. The First Crusade wins a victory forcing Emir Kerboga to lift the siege of Antioch -
Jul 15, 1099
Jerusalem was capture by Christians
The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city. -
Jan 1, 1145
The Second Crusade
The fall of Edessa, was the primary cause of the Second Crusade.
It took place in Iberia, Near East (Anatolia, Levant, Palestine) and Egypt -
Jun 1, 1146
France join the Crusade.
King Louis VII announces that France will join in the Second Crusade. -
May 10, 1147
Crusaders respond
The crusaders started thier journey from Regensburg to Constanitople. -
Jun 24, 1148
Damascus Atacked
The attack was in Acre in Damascus. Kings Louis VII and Conra III were there along with Patriarch Fulcher, Archbishops, Masters of the Knights temple and the hospital. -
Sep 10, 1148
End of the Second Crusade
Arguments began between the leaders of France and Germany and became such a conflict that Conrad III returned to Constantinople. The Crusaders lost the battle. -
Jan 1, 1189
The Third Crusade
Also known as the Kings' Crusade, was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. It was largely successful, but fell short of its ultimate goal—the reconquest of Jerusalem. -
Jan 1, 1191
The capture of Acre.
The expedition of the French and English achieved little, other than the capture od Acre. King Philip and King Richard came by sea and capture Acre. -
Jun 1, 1192
Crusaders went bak
Crusaders under the command of Richard the Lion Heart march on Jerusalem. but they are turned back due to Saladin's scorched-earth tactics which denied the Crusaders food and water during their campaign. -
Sep 2, 1192
End of the Crusade
King Richard and Saladin signed a treaty where Jerusalem would remain under Muslim control, but also allowed unarmed Christian pilgrims to enter the city. The third crusade ends. -
Jan 1, 1202
Fourth Crusade
The Fourth Crusade started. The leaders of the crusade decided to make Egypt their objective point, since this country was then the center of the Moslem power. -
Nov 24, 1202
A victory for christians
After just five days of fighting, Crusaders capture the Hungarian port of Zara. -
Jan 1, 1204
Constantinople is reeconquered.
The crusaders, now better styled the invaders, took Constantinople. They burned down a great part of it; destroyed monuments, statues, paintings, and manuscripts - the accumulation of a thousand years -
Apr 12, 1204
Regain Constantinople.
The soliders of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople again and satart up an Latin Empire of Byzantium.
The Crusade ends.
