Crusades Timeline: 1095-1099

 



Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.

  Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1095 July 29   Colomon becomes King of Hungary
  Aug 18   Eric I becomes King of Denmark
  Nov 18   Council of Clermont begins
  Nov 27   Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade at Clermont
  Dec 1   Count Raymond St. Gilles of Toulouse takes the cross
    Seljuk prince Tutush dies  
1096 Aug 1 Peter the Hermit arrives at Constantinople  
  Oct 21 Kilij Arslan victorious at Civetot  
1097 Jan Crusaders in Constantinople riot  
  May 21 Crusaders defeat Kilij Arslan outside Nicaea  
  Jun 19 Crusaders capture Nicaea  
  Jul 1 Crusaders defeat Kilij Arslan at Dorylaeum  
  Aug Crusaders capture Iconium  
      Roger II of Sicily born (d. 1154)
      Emperor Henry IV returns to Germany from Italy
1098 Feb 6 Baldwin captures Edessa  
  Mar 21   Robert of Molesme founds Cξteaux Abbey
  Jun 3 Crusaders take Antioch  
  Jun 28 Crusaders defeat Kerbogha of Mosul outside Antioch  
  Aug 1 Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy dies at Antioch  
    Egyptians recover Jerusalem from the Turks  
1099 Jan 5   Henry V elected King of the Romans
  Jul 15 Crusaders capture Jerusalem  
  Jul 22 Godfrey elected Advocate of the Holy Sepulcher  
  Jul 29   Pope Urban dies
  Aug 12 Crusaders defeat the Egyptians at Ascalon  
  Aug 13   Cardinal Rainer elected as Pope Paschal II
      Death of El Cid
    Foundation of the Order of the Knights of St. John (Hospitallers)  

• 1095-1099 • 1100-1120 • 1121-1144 • 1145-1163 • 1164-1187 • 1188-1197 • 1198-1214 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
 

Timeline of the Crusades chart >>

Other research resources on our site >>

 

The timeline was created by  Skip Knox, who is an adjunct professor of history at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho USA since 1986. He received his MA in medieval history at the University of Utah in 1980 and his PhD in early modern European social and economic history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1984.        http://crusades.boisestate.edu/

share this page with a friend