The Crusades - Events

Question 0

Council of Clermont - Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade

Answer 0

1095 27th November

Question 1

Council of Piacenza: envoys from Alexius Commenus ask Pope Urban II for military help

Answer 1

1095 March

Question 2

Pope Urban tours France preaching the crusade

Answer 2

1095 December - July 1096

Question 3

Departure of the People’s Crusade

Answer 3

1096 March

Question 4

Armies of northern French, Toulousains, and Normans of southern Italy set out

Answer 4

1096 August-October

Question 5

People’s Crusade is defeated in Asia Minor

Answer 5

1096 September

Question 6

Crusader armies start to arrive at Constantinople

Answer 6

1096 November-May 1097

Question 7

Capture of Nicaea in Asia Minor

Answer 7

1097 19th June

Question 8

Battle of Dorylaeum, Asia Minor

Answer 8

1097 1st July

Question 9

Start of the siege of Antioch

Answer 9

1097 20th October

Question 10

Capture of the city of Antioch

Answer 10

1098 3rd June

Question 11

Battle of Antioch

Answer 11

1098 28th June

Question 12

Surrender of the citadel of Antioch

Answer 12

1098 29th June

Question 13

Death of Adhemar of Le Puy

Answer 13

1098 1st August

Question 14

March down to Jerusalem

Answer 14

1098 November-May 1099

Question 15

Crusaders arrive at Jerusalem

Answer 15

1099 7th June

Question 16

Capture of Jerusalem

Answer 16

1099 15th July

Question 17

Godfrey of Bouillon is chosen to rule Jerusalem as Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre

Answer 17

1099 22nd July

Question 18

Many First Crusaders return home to the West

Answer 18

1099 August-September

Question 19

Death of Godfrey of Bouillon

Answer 19

1100 18th July

Question 20

Coronation of King Baldwin I

Answer 20

1100 25th December

Question 21

Papal bull Pie postulatio voluntatis recognises Hospital of St John in Jerusalem

Answer 21

1113

Question 22

Death of King Baldwin I on campaign in Egypt

Answer 22

1118 2nd April

Question 23

Consecration of King Baldwin II as ruler of Jerusalem

Answer 23

1118 14th April

Question 24

Foundation of the Knights Templar

Answer 24

1119

Question 25

Captivity of King Baldwin II

Answer 25

1122 April-August 1123

Question 26

Arrival of Count Fulk V of Anjou to marry Melisende, heiress to Jerusalem

Answer 26

1129 May

Question 27

Death of Prince Bohemond II of Antioch - rule taken over by Princess Alice

Answer 27

1130 February

Question 28

Death of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Coronation of Fulk and Melisende

Answer 28

1131 21st August

Question 29

Arrival of Raymond of Poitiers and his succession to the principality of Antioch

Answer 29

1136 April

Question 30

Birth of Saladin

Answer 30

1137

Question 31

Emperor John Comnenus of Byzantium threatens Antioch

Answer 31

1137-38

Question 32

Death of John Comnenus

Answer 32

1143 March

Question 33

Death of King Fulk

Answer 33

1143 10th November

Question 34

Byzantine army forces Raymond of Antioch to travel to Constantinople and acknowledge Byzantine overlordship

Answer 34

1144-45

Question 35

Fall of Edessa to Zengi of Aleppo and Mosul

Answer 35

1144 24th December

Question 36

First issue of Quantum praedecessores, crusade appeal of Pope Eugenius III

Answer 36

1145 1st December

Question 37

Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay to King Louis VII and the French nobility

Answer 37

1146 31st March

Question 38

Death of Zengi, succeeded by Nur ad-Din

Answer 38

1146 14th September

Question 39

Bernard tours Flanders and the Rhineland recruiting men for the crusade

Answer 39

1146 September-January 1147

Question 40

King Conrad III of Germany takes the cross

Answer 40

1146 24th December

Question 41

Fleet of Anglo-Norman, Flemish and Rhinelanders set out for the Holy Land via Lisbon

Answer 41

1147 May

Question 42

Armies of Conrad III and Louis VII set out for the Levant

Answer 42

1147 June

Question 43

Armies of the Second Crusade at Constantinople

Answer 43

1147 September-October

Question 44

Defeat of the French army at Mount Cadmus in Asia Minor

Answer 44

1148 7th January

Question 45

Louis VII at Antioch

Answer 45

1148 March-May

Question 46

Council of Palmarea decides to attack Damascus

Answer 46

1148 24th June

Question 47

Siege of Damascus fails

Answer 47

1148 23-28th July

Question 48

Failed attempts to launch a new crusade in France

Answer 48

1150 March-May

Question 49

Struggle between Baldwin III and Melisende for control over Jerusalem

Answer 49

1151-52

Question 50

Capture of Ascalon

Answer 50

1153 22nd August

Question 51

Nur ad-Din takes control of Damascus

Answer 51

1154 April

Question 52

Manuel Comnenus in northern Syria

Answer 52

1158-59

Question 53

Marriage of Baldwin III and Theodora, a niece of Manuel Comnenus

Answer 53

1158 September

Question 54

Death of King Baldwin III

Answer 54

1163 10th February

Question 55

Coronation of King Amalric

Answer 55

1163 18th February

Question 56

Nur ad-Din takes control of Egypt

Answer 56

1169

Question 57

Death of Nur ad-Din

Answer 57

1174 15th May

Question 58

Death of Amalric; succession of Baldwin IV

Answer 58

1174 11th July

Question 59

Saladin takes control of Damascus

Answer 59

1174 November

Question 60

Construction of the castle of Jacob's Ford; it is then taken by Saladin

Answer 60

1178-79 (taken in August 1179)

Question 61

Marriage of Guy of Lusignan and Sibylla

Answer 61

1180 April

Question 62

Death of Manuel Comnenus

Answer 62

1180 24th September

Question 63

Saladin takes control of Aleppo

Answer 63

1183 12th June

Question 64

Saladin invades - the Franks shadow him and the Muslims retreat

Answer 64

1183 September-October

Question 65

Removal of Guy of Lusignan from the regency

Answer 65

1183 October

Question 66

Mission of Patriarch Heraclius and the masters of the Templars and Hospitallers to the West

Answer 66

1184-85