A documented Crusades-period event connected with Speyer, Worms, Mainz and Cologne. Open the record for its historical context, principal actors and sources.

CaptivityViolence

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1096

ConstantinopleFirst Crusade and Foundation

People's Crusade reaches Constantinople

A documented Crusades-period event connected with Constantinople. Open the record for its historical context, principal actors and sources.

Campaign

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1096— 1097

ConstantinopleFirst Crusade and Foundation

Princes' armies assemble at Constantinople

A documented Crusades-period event connected with Constantinople. Open the record for its historical context, principal actors and sources.

Diplomacy

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1096

Civetot / Nicaea regionFirst Crusade and Foundation

Defeat at Civetot

A documented Crusades-period event connected with Civetot / Nicaea region. Open the record for its historical context, principal actors and sources.

BattleCaptivity

1095–1291 · FULL CHRONOLOGY

From Clermont to Acre.

Calls to crusade, marches, battles, sieges, treaties, changes of power and the end of Latin rule in the East appear on one timeline. Detailed cases link directly to their records.

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Council of Piacenza and the Byzantine appeal1–7 March 1095

Council of Clermont and the call to crusade27 November 1095

Rhineland massacresMay–July 1096

People's Crusade reaches ConstantinopleAugust 1096

Princes' armies assemble at Constantinople1096 (late)–May 1097

Defeat at Civetot21 October 1096

Siege of Nicaea14 May – 19 June 1097

Battle of Dorylaeum1 July 1097

Detachments leave the main army in CiliciaSeptember–October 1097

Foundation of the County of Edessa10 March 1098

Siege of Antioch20 October 1097 – 28 June 1098

Foundation of the Principality of AntiochJuly 1098

Council of Bari1–4 October 1098

Capture of Jerusalem7 June – 15 July 1099

Political foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem22 July 1099

Battle of Ascalon12 August 1099

Captivity of Bohemond I1100 – 1103

Baldwin I becomes king of Jerusalem25 December 1100

Capture of Caesarea and AcreMay 1101 – May 1104

Crusade of 1101: Merzifon2–5 August 1101

First Battle of Ramla7 September 1101

Armies of 1101 dispersed at Konya and HeracleaSeptember 1101

Second Battle of Ramla17 May 1102

Battle of Harran7 May 1104

Third Battle of Ramla27 August 1105

Capture of Tripoli and foundation of the county12 July 1109

Mawdud's campaigns against Edessa1110 – 1113

Battle of Tell Danith14 September 1115

Baldwin II becomes king of Jerusalem14 April 1118

Battle of the Field of Blood28 June 1119

Council of Nablus16 January 1120

Balak's captive-taking campaigns1122 – 1124

First Lateran Council18 March – 6 April 1123

Capture of Tyre15 February – 7 July 1124

Council of Troyes and the Knights Templar13 January 1129

Damascus campaignNovember 1129

Reign of Fulk and Melisende begins14 September 1131

Surrender of MontferrandAugust 1137

Byzantine emperor enters Antioch1138

Second Lateran Council4–11 April 1139

Zengi's capture of Edessa28 November – 24 December 1144

Call for the Second Crusade1 December 1145

Assembly of Vézelay and the preaching of the Second Crusade31 March 1146

Second capture of EdessaOctober – November 1146

Assembly of Étampes and the crusade routeFebruary 1147

Defeat of the German army at Dorylaeum25 October 1147

Second Crusade1147–1149

Crossing of Mount Honaz7 January 1148

Council of Acre24 June 1148

Siege of Damascus24–28 July 1148

Battle of Inab28–29 June 1149

Captivity of Joscelin IIApril 1150

Siege of Ascalon25 January – 19 August 1153

Nur al-Din takes Damascus25 April 1154

Byzantine–Frankish rapprochement1158–1159

Long captivity of Raynald of Châtillon1160 – 1176

Crusader–Zengid campaigns in Egypt1163 – 1169

Battle of Harim10 August 1164

Saladin becomes Fatimid vizier26 March 1169

End of the Fatimid CaliphateSeptember 1171

Deaths of Nur al-Din and Amalric I; Saladin enters DamascusMay–November 1174

Battle of Montgisard25 November 1177

Third Lateran Council5–19 March 1179

Battle of Marj Ayyun10 June 1179

Destruction of Jacob's Ford castle29 August 1179

Raynald's Red Sea expedition1182 – 1183

Aleppo submits to Saladin12 June 1183

Truce with the Kingdom of Jerusalem1185

Raid on the Kerak caravan1186 (late)

Battle of Hattin3–4 July 1187

Surrender of Jerusalem to Saladin20 September – 2 October 1187

Call for the Third Crusade29 October 1187

Defence of TyreNovember 1187 – January 1188

Assembly of Mainz and the Third Crusade vow27 March 1188

Third Crusade1189–1192

Death of Frederick Barbarossa10 June 1190

Richard's conquest of CyprusMay – June 1191

Siege of Acre28 August 1189 – 12 July 1191

Killing of the Acre prisoners20 August 1191

Battle of Arsuf7 September 1191

Battle of Jaffa and peace treatyJuly – 2 September 1192

Foundation of the Latin Kingdom of Cyprus1192

Death of Saladin4 March 1193

German Crusaders capture BeirutOctober 1197

German Crusade1197–1198

Call for the Fourth CrusadeAugust 1198

Teutonic Knights become a military order1198–1199

Sack of Zara24 November 1202

First capture of Constantinople17 July 1203

Capture and sack of Constantinople12–15 April 1204

Foundation of the Latin Empire16 May 1204

Battle of Adrianople14 April 1205

Children's Crusade1212

Fourth Lateran Council and plan for the Fifth CrusadeNovember 1215

Fifth Crusade armies at AcreSeptember–November 1217

Capture of DamiettaMay 1218 – 5 November 1219

Surrender of the Fifth Crusade army28 August – 8 September 1221

Meeting of Ferentino and the plan for the Sixth CrusadeMarch 1223

Excommunication of Frederick II29 September 1227

Sixth Crusade1228–1229

Treaty of Jaffa18 February 1229

War of the Lombards1231–1243

Barons' Crusade1239–1241

Khwarazmian capture of Jerusalem11 July – 23 August 1244

Battle of Gaza / La Forbie17–18 October 1244

First Council of Lyon and call for the Seventh Crusade17 July 1245

Louis IX arrives in Cyprus17 September 1248

Louis IX captures Damietta5–6 June 1249

Louis IX captured at Mansurah and Fariskur8 February – 6 April 1250

Beginning of Mamluk rule in EgyptMay 1250

Louis IX leaves the LevantMay 1254

War of Saint Sabas1256 – 1270

Battle of Ayn Jalut3 September 1260

Byzantines recover Constantinople25 July 1261

Baybars' first major coastal raid1263

Baybars' Caesarea–Arsuf campaignFebruary – April 1265

Capture of Safed CastleJune – July 1266

Fall of Jaffa and BeaufortMarch–April 1268

Baybars captures Antioch14–18 May 1268

Eighth Crusade: Tunis18 July – 25 August 1270

Surrender of Krak des Chevaliers8 April 1271

Lord Edward's CrusadeMay 1271 – September 1272

Baybars–Edward truce22 May 1272

Second Council of Lyon and the new crusade plan7 May – 17 July 1274

Death of Baybars1 July 1277

Second Battle of Homs29 October 1281

Capture of Margat Castle17 April – 25 May 1285

Capture of LatakiaApril 1287

Fall of TripoliMarch – 26 April 1289

Killing of Muslim merchants at AcreAugust 1290

Death of Qalawun; Acre campaign passes to al-Ashraf10 November 1290

Fall of Acre6 April – 18 May 1291

Evacuation of Tyre, Sidon and BeirutMay – July 1291

Evacuation of Tortosa and Atlit3–14 August 1291

Coverage runs from the 1095 call at Clermont to the fall of Acre and the last Frankish evacuations from Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, Tortosa and Atlit in 1291. Events whose day or month is disputed or varies between sources are shown only by year or date range.

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