first crusade

• Pope Urban calls for a Crusade at the Council of Clermont


  Nov 18,1095
• Bohemond, Prince of Potioch, leads troops across the Adriatic


  Oct 1096
• First Crusade reaches Constantinople (Constantinople ruled by Alexios)


  1097
• Godfrey of Bouillon attacks Constantinople

  March 1097
• Franks capture Tripoli


  Jul 12,1109
• Beirut Overrun by Franks


  May 1110
• Bohemond dies


  1111
• al-Khash Shab destroys the Sultan's minibor at Baghdad


  Feb 17, 1118
• Sultan Mohammed dispatches an army into Syria


  1115
• Baldwin dies, and is succeeded by Baldwin II


  1118
• Battle of the Field of Blood


  Jun 27, 1119
• Bohemond arrives at Constantinople

  Apr 9,1097
• Bohemond joins Godfrey's Lorrainers

  Apr 26,1097
• Nicea Falls


  Jun 19 1097
• Battle of Dorylaeum (Bohemond defeats the Turks)


  Jul 1 1097
• Siege of Antioch (Captured by crusaders-JUN 3)


  Oct 21,1097-Jun 3,1098
• Baldwin of Boulogne takes Edessa


  Mar 10,1098
• Peter Bartholomew's vision of the Holy Lance at Antioch


  Jun 10, 1098
• Knights of the Templar founded

  1120
• Pope Calitus II's crusade in Spain and to the East

  1120-1125
• Balak captures Josceline (Baldwin II's Cousin)

  1122
• Balak Captures King Baldwin


  1123
• Crusade decree of First Lateran Council

  Mar-Apr 1123
• Tyre captured by Franks; Balak becomes ruler of Aleppo

  1124
• King Baldwin II of Jerusalem dies; Count Fulk of Anjou is his Successor


  1131
• Holy Lance 'Discovered' by Bartholomew


  Jun 14, 1098
• Battle of Antioch (Crusaders behind the Holy Lance, drive Turkish army away)


  Jun 28, 1098
• Bishop of Puy dies ending Rome's influence over the crusade

  Aug 1, 1098
• Crusaders reach Jerusalem


  Jun 7 1099
• Crusaders capture Jerusalem


  Jul 15, 1099
• Godfrey elected first Latin ruler of Jerusalem


  Jul 22, 1099
• Battle of Ascalon


  Aug 12, 1099
• Godfrey succeeded by Baldwin


  Nov 11, 1100
• Baldwin of Edessa crowned King of Jerusalem


  Dec 25,1100
• Crusades' final wave of armies defeated by Turks


  Aug, Sept, 1101
• Council of Pisa


  May 1135
• John Comnenus, successor to Alexius as Byzantine Emperor, campaigns against Armenia and Antioch; Zengi, Mosul leader, ambushes Fulk's army


  1137
• Crusade to East


  1139-1140