The First Crusade

By jayajay
  • May 15, 1071

    Byzantine Versus Turks

    The Buzantine army are destroy by the turks
  • May 15, 1085

    Turks versus Syria and Palestine

    Turks over throw Syria and Palestine.
  • May 15, 1090

    The Massacre

    3000 Christians were massacred in Jerusalem and the Christian churches were destroyed or used as stables
  • May 15, 1095

    The embassy

    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
  • May 15, 1095

    The Great Council

    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)
  • Nov 27, 1095

    The Council of Clermont

    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
  • May 15, 1096

    The People's Crusade

    Peter, the Hermit, took up the cry "God wills it!" and ordinary people joined in the 'People's Crusade'
  • May 15, 1096

    Armed forces gathered at Constantinople

    Armed forces gathered at Constantinople to embark on the First Crusade
  • May 15, 1096

    Bosphorus

    Emperor Alexius I shipped the Peoples Crusade over the Bosphorus
  • May 15, 1096

    annihilated in Anatolia

    The Peoples Crusade were annihilated by the Turks in Anatolia
  • May 31, 1097

    Nicacea

    Siege of Nicacea
  • Jul 18, 1097

    The battle

    Battle of Dorylaeum
  • May 18, 1098

    The siege

    The Siege of Antioch
    October of 1097 to June of 1098
  • Jun 1, 1098

    The Flee

    Stephen of Blois and numerous French crusaders flee the siege of Antioch with news of the arrival of Emir Kerboga of Mosul
  • Jun 3, 1098

    The Capture of Antioch

    Bohemond I, led the capture of Antioch
  • Jun 5, 1098

    Siege led by Bohemond

    Emir Kerboga of Mosul and his army of 75,000 lays siege to the crusaders led by Bohemond
  • Jun 13, 1099

    TO JERUSALEM!!!!

    Raymond of Toulouse leads the crusaders from Antioch and to Jerusalem
  • Jul 15, 1099

    SUCCESS!!!!!!!

    The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city