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Period: Apr 1, 1070 to Apr 1, 1100
The First Crusade
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Apr 1, 1071
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Byzantine army is destroyed by Turks -
Apr 1, 1072
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Mercenary Seljuk Turks conquer Syria and Palestine. The City of Jerusalem is taken from the more civilised Saracen caliphs -
Apr 1, 1085
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3000 Christian Pilgrims were massacred in Jerusalem and the Christian churches were destroyed or used as stables -
Apr 1, 1095
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Emperor Alexius I sent an embassy to Pope Urban II regarding the atrocities in Jerusalem and the growing threat of the Turks to Constantinople and the whole of Europe -
Jun 1, 1095
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Pope Urban II called a great council of the Church at Placentia, in Italy, to consider the appeal - decisions were deferred until later in the year -
Nov 27, 1095
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Pope Urban II called a great council of clergy and nobles to meet at Clermont in France called the Council of Clermont. He called for a crusade against the Infidels -
Dec 1, 1095
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Peter the Hermit took up the cry "God wills it!" and ordinary people join in the 'People's Crusade' - most were unarmed -
Apr 1, 1096
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Armed forces gathered at Constantinople to embark on the First Crusade -
Aug 1, 1096
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Emperor Alexius I shipped the Peoples Crusade over the Bosphorus -
Oct 1, 1096
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The Peoples Crusade were annihilated by the Turks in Anatolia -
May 1, 1097
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Siege of Nicacea -
Jul 1, 1097
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Battle of Dorylaeum -
Dec 1, 1097
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The Siege of Antioch -
Jun 1, 1098
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Stephen of Blois and numerous French crusaders flee the siege of Antioch with news of the arrival of Emir Kerboga of Mosul -
Jun 3, 1098
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Bohemond I, elder son of Robert Guiscard, led the capture of Antioch -
Jun 5, 1098
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Emir Kerboga of Mosul and his army of 75,000 lays siege to the crusaders led by Bohemond -
Feb 14, 1099
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The siege of Arqah, near Tripoli -
Jun 13, 1099
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Raymond of Toulouse leads the crusaders from Antioch and to Jerusalem -
Jun 28, 1099
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The Battle of Orontes. The First Crusade wins a victory forcing Emir Kerboga to lift the siege of Antioch -
Jul 15, 1099
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The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city