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661
Islamic faith splits into Shi'a (those who emphasised blood descent from Muhammad as the main principle for leadership of the Islamic faith), and Sunni (emphasised the teachings and conduct of Muhammad as their guiding principle). Shi'as believed that the
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1050-1100
Investiture Contest. This was a contest between the HRE leader and the pope as to who would appoint bishops and have power of the church in feudal lands.
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1054
The Great Schism of Christendom between the Western and Eastern (orthodox) churches.
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1071
Battle of Manzikert (Seljuks defeated Byzantines)
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March 1095
Alexius appeals for help from Urban at the Council of Piacenza
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27th November 1095
Urban preaches the Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
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April 1096
The Peoples' Crusade. They were defeated at (Battle of Civetot) Peter the Hermit survived however and went back to Constantinople.
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August 1096
First Crusade marches
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1097
Battle of Dorylaeum
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1097-98
Siege and capture of Antioch
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1098
Baldwin of Boulogne becomes Count of Edessa.
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15th July 1099
Siege and capture of Jerusalem - Godfrey becomes Protector of the Holy Sepulchre.
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1100
Baldwin I becomes King of Jerusalem
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1101
Caesarea captured by Crusaders.
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1102
New Crusade helps Kingdom survive.
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1104
Crusaders capture Acre.
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1107
Bohemond's Crusade that was supposed to defend Antioch, instead attacks the Byzantines.
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1108
Bohemond diverts another Crusade to attack the Greeks
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1110
Capture of Beirut and Sidon
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1112
Death of Bohemond I
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1113
Hospitaller Order becomes independent.
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1118
Death of Baldwin I - accession of his cousin, Baldwin II
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1119
Establishment of the Order of the ‘poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon’(the Templars) by Hugh de Payns. Roger of Salerno and most of army killed at the Battle of the ‘Field of Blood’ he did not wait for reinforcements from the king. King Bald
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1120
Fulk of Anjou arrived in the East on a private ‘Crusade’.
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1122
Venetian fleet of ‘Crusaders’ arrive after an appeal by Jerusalem in 1120.
Count Joscelin I captured by Balak.
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1123
Baldwin II captured by II-Ghazi’s nephew Balak, and imprisoned until 1124. A coup is narrowly avoided in his absence.
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1124
Baldwin II captures port of Tyre with Venetian help
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1125
Baldwin II fails to capture Aleppo.
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1126
Bohemond II assumes control. Marries Princess Alice of Jerusalem.
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1127
Imad-ad-din-Zengi becomes ruler of Mosul.
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1128
Zengi extends his control over Aleppo (a direct result of Baldwin’s attack in 1125).
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1129
Baldwin II, with no sons, marries his daughter Melisende to Fulk, Count of Anjou
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1130
Bohemond II killed by Turks- his widow Alice tries to seize power on behalf of their infant daughter, Constance.
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1134
Fulk is threatened by a faction of Syrian nobles who feel he has given too much power to his own supporters. From this point on Melisende plays a more central role in government.
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1136
King Fulk gives control of the castle of Beth Gibelin (near Ascalon) to the Hospitallers. This established a precedent of giving the military orders control of many of Outremer’s castles. King Fulk as regent, marries Constance to his vassal, Raymond of Po
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1137
Emperor John II marched into Antiochene territory and forced Prince Raymond to agree to the theoretical sovereignty of the Empire over Antioch. He would contribute little in terms of military aid, however.
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1140
King Fulk concludes an alliance with Unur of Damascus (both worried about the threat of Zengi in Aleppo).
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1143
Death of King Fulk I. Melisende assumes the regency for her son, Baldwin III. Emperor John II also dies.
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1144
Edessa lost to Zengi, Emir of Mosul and Aleppo.
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1st December 1145
Pope Eugenius III calls for the Second Crusade through publishing his Quantum Praedeccessores.
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1146
Many Western knights take the Cross in response to Bernard of Clairvaux’s preaching of the second crusade. Includes King Louis VII of France and Conrad of Germany. Count Joscelin II attempts to retake his city, but fails, and Nur-ad-Din destroys the city
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