On 27 November 1095, at the Council of Clermont in France, Pope Urban II appealed to the knights of Christendom to go to the aid of the Byzantine Empire against the Seljuk Turks and to free Jerusalem. The crowd is said to have shouted 'Deus vult', God wills it. In the following year tens of thousands of people marched east, and in July 1099 the crusaders took Jerusalem and massacred much of its Muslim and Jewish population. They established four Crusader states in the Levant. The movement shaped relations between Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic world for centuries.
Before and after
- 1093Construction of Zagreb Cathedral
- 1093Construction of Durham Cathedral
- c. 1094Origins of Zagreb
- from 1095 to 1291Crusades
- 27 November 1095Pope Urban II calls the First Crusade
- 1096Founding of University of Oxford
- from 1096 to 1099First Crusade
- from April 1096 to October 1096People's Crusade
- 1098Birth of Hildegard of Bingen
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The era
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