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The Buzantine army are destroy by the turks
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Turks over throw Syria and Palestine.
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3000 Christians were massacred in Jerusalem and the Christian churches were destroyed or used as stables
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Emperor Alexius I sent a group of people to Pope Urban II regarding the crueltyto the prisoners by the army in Jerusalem and the growing threat of the Turks to Constantinople and the whole of Europe
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Pope Urban II called a council of the Church at Placentia, in Italy, to consider the appeal (decisions were deferred until later in the year)
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Pope Urban II called a council of clergy and nobles to meet in Clermont, France called the Council of Clermont. He ordered for a crusade against the Infidels
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Peter, the Hermit, took up the cry "God wills it!" and ordinary people joined in the 'People's Crusade'
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Armed forces gathered at Constantinople to embark on the First Crusade
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Emperor Alexius I shipped the Peoples Crusade over the Bosphorus
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The Peoples Crusade were annihilated by the Turks in Anatolia
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Siege of Nicacea
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Battle of Dorylaeum
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The Siege of Antioch
October of 1097 to June of 1098 -
Stephen of Blois and numerous French crusaders flee the siege of Antioch with news of the arrival of Emir Kerboga of Mosul
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Bohemond I, led the capture of Antioch
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Emir Kerboga of Mosul and his army of 75,000 lays siege to the crusaders led by Bohemond
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Raymond of Toulouse leads the crusaders from Antioch and to Jerusalem
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The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city