The Crusades timeline

  • Epitome Ovetense Is Written

    At the western edge of Europe and of Islamic expansion, the Reconquista in Spain was well underway by the eleventh century; it was intermittently... Read more

  • Church Of The Holy Sepulchre Is Destroyed

    The idea that the crusades were a response to Islam dates back as far as twelfth-century historian William of Tyre, who began his chronicle with... Read more

  • Eastern Orthodox And Roman Catholic Churches Are In A Schism

    In the east of Europe was the Byzantine Empire, Christians who had long followed a separate Orthodox rite. Since 1054 the Eastern Orthodox and... Read more

  • Byzantine Defeat at Manzikert

    In the east of Europe was the Byzantine Empire, Christians who had long followed a separate Orthodox rite. Since 1054 the Eastern Orthodox and... Read more

  • Battle Of Anatolia

    In the east of Europe was the Byzantine Empire, Christians who had long followed a separate Orthodox rite. Since 1054 the Eastern Orthodox and... Read more

  • First Crusade Is Launched

    The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to the appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. The... Read more

  • Attacks On The Jewish Communities In France And Germany

    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

  • The Council Of Piacenza Asks Pope Urban II For Aid Against The Turks

    The Crusades had deeply-rooted causes in the social and political situation in 11th centruy Europe. However, the event which actually triggered the... Read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Siege Of Nicaea

    The Siege of Nicaea took place from May 14 to June 19, 1097, during the First Crusade. Nicaea, located on the eastern shore of Lake Ascanius,... Read more

  • Turkish Garrison Surrenders at Nicea

    The crusader armies crossed over into Asia Minor throughout the first half of 1097, and were joined by Peter the Hermit and the remainder of his... Read more

  • Battle Of Dorylaeum

    The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade on July 1, 1097, between the crusaders and the Seljuk Turks, near Dorylaeum in... Read more

  • Siege Of Antioch

    The Siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 and 1098. The first siege, by the crusaders against the Muslim city, lasted from... Read more

  • Siege of Jerusalem

    The Siege of Jerusalem took place from June 7 to July 15, 1099 during the First Crusade. During it, the Crusaders stormed and captured the city... Read more

  • Knights And Peasants Capture Jerusalem

    The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to the appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. The... Read more

  • Establishment Of The Kingdom Of Jerusalem

    The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. It lasted nearly two hundred years,... Read more

  • Battle Of Ascalon

    The Battle of Ascalon took place on August 12, 1099, and is often considered the last action of the First Crusade. The crusaders had negotiated... Read more

  • Crusade Of 1101

    The Crusade of 1101 was a minor crusade of three separate movements, organized in 1100 and 1101 in the successful aftermath of the First Crusade.... Read more

  • Norwegian Crusade

    The Norwegian Crusade was a crusade that lasted from 1107 to 1110, in the aftermath of the First Crusade, by the lead of the Norwegian king Sigurd... Read more

  • Siege Of Sidon

    The Siege of Sidon was an event in the aftermath of the First Crusade. The coastal city of Sidon was captured by the forces of Baldwin I of... Read more

  • Siege Of Edessa

    The Siege of Edessa took place from November 28 to December 24, 1144, resulting in the fall of the capital of the crusader County of Edessa to... Read more

  • Quantum Praedecessores Is Issued

    Quantum praedecessores is a papal bull issued on December 1, 1145, by Pope Eugenius III, calling for a Second Crusade. It was the first papal bull... Read more

  • Wendish Crusade

    The Wendish Crusade (German: Wendenkreuzzug) was an 1147 campaign, one of the Northern Crusades and also a part of the Second Crusade, led... Read more