crusades

  • Nov 1, 1048

    Land in the second Crusade.

    the Europeans failed to regain any land and the crusade was a failure from a European point of view.
  • Aug 15, 1095

    Start of the first crusades

  • Jul 1, 1097

    Battle of Dorylaeum

  • Feb 14, 1099

    The siege of Arqah, near Tripoli

  • May 18, 1099

    Jerusalem fell

    crusaders massacred Jews, Christians and Muslims alike.
  • Jul 15, 1099

    The soldiers of the First Crusade

    The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city
  • Jul 16, 1099

    End of the first crusade

  • Nov 1, 1147

    Start of the second crusuade

  • Nov 1, 1148

    The Second Crusade started because...

    The Second Crusade started when Europeans lost control of Edessa, territory that they had previously controlled, to the Muslims.
  • Nov 1, 1149

    End of the second crusuede

  • Nov 1, 1189

    start of the third crusade

  • Nov 1, 1190

    The Third Crusade was a response to Jerusalem’s fall.

  • Nov 1, 1192

    End of the third crusade

  • Nov 1, 1201

    start of the fourth crusade

  • Nov 1, 1203

    Not Jerusalem this time.

    Instead of going to Jerusalem, the Fourth Crusade went to the Byzantine Empire’s capital, Constantinople.
  • Nov 1, 1204

    End of the fourth crusade