| Year | Events of the Crusades | Contemporary Events |
|---|---|---|
| 610 | Preaching of Muhammad | |
| 632 | Death of Muhammad | |
| 633-717 | Arab Conquests | |
| 1054 | Great Schism | |
| 1095 | Alexander Comnenus appeals to Urban II | |
| 1096 | Preching of Peter the Hermit in the Spring; Autumn: Baron’s Crusade; Godfrey of Bouillon reaches Constantinople | |
| 1099 | July 15: Godfrey captures Jerusalem; named Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre | Urban II dies: Paschal II (1099–1118), pope |
| 1100 | Godfrey dies: Baldwin of Boulogne becomes King of Jerusalem (Baldwin I) | |
| 1115 | St. Bernard founds the Abbey of Clairvaux | |
| 1118 | Baldwin I leads expedition against Egypt; April 2: Baldwin I dies; Baldwin Le Bourg named king (Baldwin II) | |
| 1119 | Calixtus II: pope | |
| 1123 | Baldwin II taken prisoner by Balak; May: Venetian fleet defeats Egyptian fleet at Ascalon | |
| 1124 | Baldwin II released after death of Balak | Calixtus dies: Honorius II, pope |
| 1127 | Zengi – atabeg of Mosul | |
| 1128 | Zengi – master of Aleppo | |
| 1129 | Melisende, heiress to throne of Jerusalem marries Fulk of Anjou | |
| 1130 | Death of Honorius II: Innocent II, pope | |
| 1131 | Death of Baldwin II (21 Aug); Accession of Fulk of Anjou | |
| 1138 | Franco – Damascene Alliance (Fulk/Muin Al-Din Unur, Regent of Damascus) | |
| 1143 | Death of John Comnenus Emperor of Byzantium (8 Apr.); Death of Fulk (10 Nov.) Regency of Melisende | Death of Innocent II: Celestine II, pope |
| 1144 | Zengi captures Edessa | Death of Celestine II |
| 1145 | Preaching of New Crusade in the West | Eugenius III, pope |
| 1146 | Death of Zengi (15 Sept.); Nur-ed Din inherits Aleppo; St. Bernard preaches Crusade; Louis VII takes cross 31 March; Emperor Conrad III takes cross 25 December. | |
| 1147 | Manuel Comnenus declares War on Anatolian Turks; German Crusade wiped out; French Crusade struggles | |
| 1152 | End of Melisende’s Regency; Accession of Baldwin III | |
| 1153 | Baldwin III takes Ascalon | Anastasius IV, pope |
| 1154 | Nur-ed Din, master of Damascus | Adrian IV, pope |
| 1156 | Reynauld of Châtillon ravages Cyprus | |
| 1157 | Emperor Frederick I revolt and expulsion from Rome | |
| 1159 | Alexander III, pope; Victor IV, imperial anti-pope | |
| 1160 | Reynauld of Châtillon imprisoned by Nur-ed Din | Frederick I excommunicated |
| 1162 | 10 February: Death of Baldwin III; 18 February: Accession of Amalric I | Frederick Barbarossa destroys Milan: Pope Alexander III flees to France |
| 1169 | 23 March: Saladin Master of Egypt – collapse of decadent Fatamid Caliphate | |
| 1170 | Assassination of Thomas Becket | |
| 1171 | 10 September: Egypt’s return to Sunnite Orthodoxy | |
| 1173 | Break between Nur-ed Din and Saladin | |
| 1174 | 15 May: Death of Nur-ed Din; 11 July: Death of Amalric I; Accession of Baldwin IV, the leper king | |
| 1176 | Release of Reynald: Marriage to Stephanie of Milly, Lady of Kerak of Moab. Defeat of Manuel Comnenus at Myriocephalum; End of Byzantine hegemony in Asia Minor | |
| 1177 | Peace of Venice: Frederick I and Pope Alexander III | |
| 1180 | Truce with Saladin; 24 September: Death of Manuel Comnenus; Marriage of Sibylla to Guy of Lusignan | Anti-Pope Innocent III deposed – schism ends |
| 1181 | Lucius III, pope | |
| 1183 | Saladin Master of Aleppo | |
| 1185 | Death of Baldwin IV; Accession of boy king Baldwin V (Regency of Raymond III) | Urban III, pope |
| 1186 | Death of Baldwin V; Coronation of Sibylla and Guy of Lusignan. Reynald captures a caravan belonging to Damascus – war declared | |
| 1187 | Defeat of Crusader forces at Hattin – 4 July Saladin captures Tiberias, Acre, Jaffa, Haifa, Caesarea, Toron, Sidon, Beirut, Ascalon and on 2 October, Jerusalem August/December: a crusade is preached in the West | Clement III, pope |
| 1188 | Henry II (England) and Philip II (France) take the Cross | Genghis Khan unifies Mongolia |
| 1189 | Frederick Barbarossa and the German Crusade (Syria) | |
| 1190 | 10 June: Death of Frederick Barbarossa; Philip II and Richard Coeur-de-Lion set out on Crusade in July | |
| 1191 | Richard sacks Cyprus | Celestine III, pope |
| 1192 | Crusaders besiege Jerusalem – Negotiate with Saladin April: Conrad de Montferrat King of Jerusalem; 28 April: He is assassinated; 2 September: Peace with Saladin; 9 October: Crusaders embark for Europe | Richard imprisoned in Durnstein, Austria by Leopold V, whom he had insulted (huge ransom) |
| 1193 | 3 March: Death of Saladin; struggles of succession until 1201 | |
| 1194 | Richard freed | |
| 1198 | Innocent III, pope | |
| 1199 | Preaching of the Fourth Crusade | Richard dies; accession of John Lackland |
| 1204 | Sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders | |
| 1208 | Preaching of Crusade against the Albigensians | |
| 1209 | Albigensian Crusade | |
| 1212 | The Children’s Crusade | |
| 1215 | Fourth Lateran Ecumenical Council, the Magna Carta | |
| 1216 | Fifth Crusade preached by Honorius III; led by Cardinal Pelagius | Innocent III dies — Honorius III, pope |
| 1221 | Military disaster at Mansourah, Egypt; end of Fifth Crusade | |
| 1226 | Death of St. Francis of Assisi | |
| 1227 | Excommunication of Frederick II | Death of Genghis |
| 1229 | Treaty of Frederick II with Sultan of Egypt cedes Jerusalem to the Emperor | |
| 1231 | Inquisition established | |
| 1239 | Frederick II invades Papal States | |
| 1244 | Capture of Jerusalem by the Turks | |
| 1248-52 | Crusade of Louis IX | 1250: Death of Frederick |
| 1256 | Second Children’s Crusade Massacre at “Pastouraux” | |
| 1258 | Mongol Khan Hulagu, Master of Baghdad, later Aleppo and Damascus | |
| 1260-77 | Mamelukes establish Caliphate in Egypt | |
| 1270 | Second Crusade of St. Louis IX; Death by disease in Tunis | |
| 1280 | Alliance of Franks and Mongols against Qalawun, Mameluke Sultan | |
| 1291 | End of Frankish States in the East: fall of Acre, Tyre, Sidon and Beirut | |
| 1303 | Philip the Handsome defies Papacy (Innocent IV) | |
| 1305 | The Popes move to Avignon, France | |
| 1307-12 | Trial of the Templars and suppression of the Order of the Temple |