What Happened in 1096

1096 to 1099

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... Read more

May 1096

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... Read more

Aug 1096

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... Read more

Aug 15 1096

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... Read more