crucial dates

Question 1

First Crusade sets off

Answer 1

1096

Question 2

Baldwin becomes king of Edessa

Answer 2

1098

Question 3

Capture of Jerusalem, Battle of Ascalon, Daimbert replaces Arnulf of Chocques

Answer 3

1099

Question 4

Bohemond replaces Greek patriarch with Latin one in Antioch and is captured, Baldwin replaces Godfrey as king of Jerusalem

Answer 4

1100

Question 5

Crusade of the Faint Hearted splits into two and is crushed by Kilij Arslan

Answer 5

1101

Question 6

Arsuf and Caesarea taken by Baldwin I with the Genoese

Answer 6

1101

Question 7

Crusaders win the first battle of Ramla

Answer 7

1101

Question 8

Second Battle of Ramla not successful for the Crusaders

Answer 8

1102

Question 9

Tancred takes Latakia for the Antioch from the Byzantines

Answer 9

1103

Question 10

Baldwin I takes Acre with the Genoese

Answer 10

1104

Question 11

Battle of Harran: Bohemond of Antioch and Baldwin II of Edessa are routed, Bohemond goes back to Europe

Answer 11

1104

Question 12

Al-Afdal sends a third Fatimid force, defeated at the Third Battle of Ramla

Answer 12

1105

Question 13

Bohemond gets Pope Pachal II’s support and raises 30,000 men in Europe

Answer 13

1105-6

Question 14

Bohemond attacks the Balkans

Answer 14

1107

Question 15

Treaty of Devol

Answer 15

1108

Question 16

Tripoli taken

Answer 16

1109

Question 17

Damascans make plea to Baghdad

Answer 17

1110

Question 18

Mawdud of Mosul unsuccessfully besieges Edessa

Answer 18

1110

Question 19

Sigurf helps to besiege Sidon, Sidon farmers negotiate to stay and tend land

Answer 19

1110

Question 20

Aleppans make plea to Baghdad

Answer 20

1111

Question 21

Mawdud allies with Shaizar but is not let in to Aleppo by Ridwan and four crusaders states rally defensively in coalition to help Antioch,

Answer 21

1111

Question 22

Mawdud of Mosul allies with Tughtegin of Damsacus invade Galilee- Baldwin defeated at the Battle of al-Sannabra, retreats to Mount Tabor where Antioch and Tripoli come to help

Answer 22

1113

Question 23

Bursuq faces Roger, Baldwin II of Edessa, Baldwin I, Pons of Tripoli, Tughtegin of Damascus and Il-Ghazi of Mardin, Bursuq feigns retreat, however Roger’s forces alone win the battle

Answer 23

1115

Question 24

Baldwin I to II

Answer 24

1118

Question 25

Massacre of pilgrims at the river Jordan, Knights Templar

Answer 25

1119

Question 26

Field of Blood- Roger doesn’t wait for support, massacred with most of his army

Answer 26

1119

Question 27

Council of Nablus and resulting appeals

Answer 27

1120

Question 28

Zengi atabeg of Mosul

Answer 28

1127

Question 29

Zengi seizes Aleppo

Answer 29

1128

Question 30

Raymond of Poitiers married to Constance of Antioch

Answer 30

1136

Question 31

John II Komnenos forces Raymond of Antioch to acknowledge his overlordship

Answer 31

1137

Question 32

Kerak built by KoJ

Answer 32

1142

Question 33

Fulk dies, Melisende rules with her son Baldwin III

Answer 33

1143

Question 34

Fall of Edessa

Answer 34

1144

Question 35

Council of Clermont

Answer 35

1095

Question 36

Siege of Antioch

Answer 36

1097-8

Question 37

Battle of Antioch

Answer 37

28th June 1098

Question 38

Malik Shah dies, infighting amongst his sons over the succession

Answer 38

1092

Question 39

Bohemond killed during a raid in Cilicia

Answer 39

1130

Question 40

Baldwin I injured by Fatimid raiding party whilst hunting

Answer 40

1103

Question 41

Accounts of Saewulf and Daniel the about describe lawlessness and Muslim threat within Crusaderr territory

Answer 41

early 1100s