1090 To 10991090c - Inge I becomes King of Sweden
c - St. Bernard of Clairvaux born.
c - Professional hagiographers, such as Caradoc of Llancarfan, Lifris and others, write various saints lives, some (St. Gildas, St. Padarn, St. Cadog, St. Iltud) include mentions of Arthur and his exploits.
c - China Mechanical clock, driven by water, built in Kaifeng (China's capital city)
x - Bernard of Clairvaux. He was known as "doctor mellifluus" for the honeyed sweetness of his style. It was Bernard who got the pope to silence Abelard.
jul 03 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II.
jul 03 - Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle.
1091x - The Norman conquest of Saracen-held Sicily provided access to Arabic manuscripts that showed a place-notated decimal system that forms the basis of modern mathematics.
x - England Colchester Castle passes to Eudo.
x - England William Rufus renews agreement with Scots.
x - Normans complete conquest of Sicily.
x - A trading deal was made between Mahdiyah, near Tunis, and Genoa.
apr 29 - Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes.
jun 17 - Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland.
1092x - England Carlisle Collegiate church founded.
1093x - Trade guilds were noted in England.
x - England Benedictines take over at Chester.
x - England Anselm Becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
nov 00 - Scotland Donald Bane becomes king of Scotland.
nov 13 - England Battle of Alnwick.
nov 13 - England Malcolm III MacDuncan, king of Scotland, dies in battle.
nov 13 - Edward Macduncan, Scot crown prince/son of Malcolm II, dies in battle.
nov 17 - Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III, dies.
1094x - Japan First year of Kah?.
x - England Battle Abbey reconsecrated.
jun 15 - Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar El Cid occupies Valencia on the Moren.
oct 08 - St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice.
1095x - England Wulfstan dies.
nov 27 - FranceFirst Crusade At the Council of Clermont Pope Urban II made an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem,to defeat the Turks and recapture the Holy Sepulchre. He was responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land. The First Crusade sparked a renewal of trade between Europe and Asia.
nov 27 - Pope Urban II preaches First Crusade.
1096c - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built in Jerusalem on the traditional site of the burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
x - Japan First year of Eich?.
x - England William buys Normandy.
x - England Canterbury Choir, East Transepts and Crypt building work.
x - Peter the Hermit's Crusade.
spr 00 - Peasants' Crusade set out from Europe
may 00 - Before embarking on the First Crusade Count Emich von Leiningen and his army swept through their own German homeland, murdering thousands of Jews, whom they had declared "murderers of Christ." When Emich arrived in the town of Worms, the town's Roman Catholic Bishop tried to protect the Jewish population, but the Crusaders overran his palace and slaughtered some 500 people who had taken shelter there. Another 300 were killed over the next two days. The graves of the massacre victims can still be seen at the Jewish Cemetery at Worms.
may 18 - Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm.
sum la - First Crusade leaders were departing Europe
jun 25 - First Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany.
jun 26 - Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary.
jul 12 - Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Sofia in Hungary.
jul 26 - Peter reaches Byzantium.
aug 01 - The crusaders under Peter the Hermit reached Constantinople. Anna Comnena, a 13 year-old Christian in Constantinople, watched as the crusaders marched into the city.
aug 12 - Emperor Alexius of Constantinople shipped the Peasants' Crusade over the Bosporus
oct 01 - Raymond starts his crusade.
oct 01 - Peasants' Crusade annihilated in Anatolia by the Turks
oct 21 - Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughtered thousands of German crusaders.
1097c - The pilgrimage routes of France chemins de pelerinage were begun.
x - Japan First year of J?toku.
x - Crusaders defeat Seljuk's at Nicaca and Dorylaeum.
x - Scotland Edgar Macmalcolm becomes king of the Scots.
spr 00 - First Crusade contingents assembling in Constantinople
apr 00 - EnglandFirst Crusade Crusaders reach Constantinople.
apr la - First Crusade began the march in Anatolia to Nicaea
jun la - First Crusade Crusaders marched overland from Nicaea toward Dorylaeum
jun 30 - First Crusade The Crusaders defeated the Turks at Dorylaeum.
oct 20 - First Crusade 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch.
oct 21 - First Crusade Crusaders arrived before Antioch and a long, bitter siege ensues.
1098x - Japan Minamoto Yoshiie is allowed to enter the Imperial court.
x - First Crusade Crusaders establish three states in Holy Land: Kingdom of Jerusalem, Principality of Antioch, and the County of Edessa. u.1100
feb ea - First Crusade Emperor Alexius' General Tacitius left the siege of Antioch.
feb 10 - First Crusade Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch.
mar 10 - Citizens of Edessa gave Baldwin control of the city.
jun 01 - First Crusade Stephen of Blois and a large group of French left the siege of Antioch.
jun 05 - First Crusade Kerbogha arrived before Antioch and besieged the besiegers. u.jun 09 1098
jun 14 - Peter Bartholomew found the Lance.
jun 28 - First Crusade Crusaders beat back Kerbogha's siege of Crusader Antioch.
nov 27 - First Crusade Crusaders captured M'arrat-an-Numan. The army is restless for Jerusalem. u.dec 11
dec 12 - First Crusade 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria.
1099x - Japan First year of K?wa.
x - England Flambard is made Bishop of Durham.
x - England Nave at Durham constructed.
jan 06 - Henry V crowned German king.
jan 13 - First Crusade Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria.
jan 13 - First Crusade Raymond of Toulouse led the first contingent away from Antioch and toward Jerusalem.
jan 28 - First Crusade 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria.
feb 14 - First Crusade Raymond began the desultory siege of Arqah, near Tripoli.
mar la - First Crusade Godfrey and Robert of Flanders joined the siege of Arqah.
apr 14 - Conrad, bishop of Utrecht, stabbed to death.
may mi - First Crusade Raymond finally gave up on Arqah and all present marched to Jerusalem.
jun 05 - First Crusade Knights and their families on the First Crusade witnessed an eclipse of the moon and interpreted it as a sign from God that they would recapture Jerusalem.
jun 06 - Citizens of Bethlehem invited Tancred to protect them.
jun 07 - First Crusade 1st Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem.
jul 08 - First Crusade In Jerusalem 15,000 starving Christian soldiers marched around barefoot while the Muslim defenders mocked them from the battlements.
jul 12 - First Crusade Crusade leaders visited the Mount of Olives where they met a hermit who urged them to assault Jerusalem.
jul 13 - First Crusade The Crusaders launched their final assault on Muslims in Jerusalem and fail to take it by storm.
jul 15 - First Crusade Godfrey breached the walls of Jerusalem near Herod's Gate and soon was elected the "Defender of the Holy Sepulchre" the crusaders slaughtered the Jewish and Muslim inhabitants.
jul 16 - El Cid, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Spanish general strategist, dies at 59.
jul 16 - First Crusade Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire.
jul 29 - Pope Urban II, Odo van Lagery, French Pope
aug 12 - First Crusade At the Battle of Ascalon 1,000 Crusaders, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, routed an Egyptian relief column, the Fatimids, heading for Jerusalem.
aug 13 - Paschal II becomes Pope u.1116
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