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Events That Happened in 1096
15 Aug 1096
The great French nobles and their trained armies of knights were not the first to undertake the journey towards Jerusalem. Urban had planned the departure of the crusade for 15 August 1096, the Feast of the Assumption, but months before this a number of unexpected armies of peasants and petty nobles set off for Jerusalem on their own, led by a charismatic priest named Peter the Hermit of Amiens. Peter was the most successful of the preachers o...
1096 Events
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1096 to 1099
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The First Crusade
The First Crusade was a military expedition by European Christians against Muslim territory in the Levant, which resulted in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. It was launched in 1095 by P...
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| 1096 May |
Emicho Of Flonheim Attacks The Jews
At a local level, the preaching of the First Crusade ignited violence against Jews, which some historians call "the first Holocaust". At the end of 1095 and beginning of 1096, months befo...
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| 1096 Aug |
Four Crusade Armies Leave Europe
The four main crusader armies left Europe around the appointed time in August 1096. They took different paths to Constantinople and gathered outside its city walls between November 1096 a...
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| 1096 Aug 15 |
Feast Of The Assumption
The great French nobles and their trained armies of knights were not the first to undertake the journey towards Jerusalem. Urban had planned the departure of the crusade for 15 August 109...
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