27 November 1095: Pope Urban II’s sermon on the First Crusade at Clermont
18 June 1097: Nicaea surrenders to the First Crusade
1 July 1097: Battle of Dorylaeum
3 June 1098: First Crusade sacks Antioch
28 June 1098: Battle of Antioch against Kerbogha of Mosul
15 July 1099: First Crusade captures Jerusalem
May 1104: Battle of Harran
28 June 1119: Roger of Antioch slain at the Field of Blood
June 1128: Zangi assumes control of Aleppo
December 1144: Zangi conquers Edessa
1 December 1145: Pope Eugenius III proclaims the Second Crusade
September 1146: Zangi assassinated; Nur al-Din assumes control of Aleppo
July 1148: Failure of the Second Crusade’s siege of Damascus
29 June 1149: Battle of Inab
19 August 1153: Latins conquer Ascalon
April 1154: Nur al-Din occupies Damascus
11 August 1164: Nur al-Din defeats the Franks near Harim
March 1169: Saladin assumes the title of vizier of Egypt
September 1171: Abolition of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt
15 May 1174: Death of Nur al-Din; that October Saladin assumes control of Damascus
25 November 1177: Battle of Mont Gisard
12 June 1183: Saladin occupies Aleppo
May 1185: Death of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
4 July 1187: Battle of Hattin
2 October 1187: Saladin retakes Jerusalem
29 October 1187: Pope Gregory VIII issues call for the Third Crusade
November 1187: Richard the Lionheart takes the cross
28 August 1189: Guy of Lusignan lays siege to Acre
10 June 1190: Death of Frederick Barbarossa in Asia Minor
8 June 1191: Richard the Lionheart arrives at Acre
12 July 1191: Third Crusaders occupy Acre
20 August 1191: Richard I executes Muslim prisoners outside Acre
7 September 1191: Battle of Arsuf
13 January 1192: Richard I orders first retreat from Beit Nuba
4 July 1192: Third Crusade makes its second retreat from Beit Nuba
2 September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa finalised
4 March 1193: Death of Saladin
15 August 1198: Pope Innocent III issues call for the Fourth Crusade
12 April 1204: Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople
November 1215: Pope Innocent III presides over the Fourth Lateran Council
5 November 1219: Fifth Crusade captures Damietta
17 March 1229: Frederick II Hohenstaufen enters Jerusalem
11 July 1244: Khwarizmians sack Jerusalem
18 October 1244: Battle of La Forbie
5 June 1249: King Louis IX of France lands in Egypt
8 February 1250: Battle of Mansourah
April 1250: Louis IX taken captive by Turanshah
February 1258: Mongols sack Baghdad
3 September 1260: Battle of Ayn Jalut
June 1261: Baybars invested as Mamluk sultan
19 May 1268: Baybars sacks Antioch
8 April 1271: Hospitallers surrender Krak des Chevaliers to Baybars
27 April 1289: Qalawun captures Tripoli
18 May 1291: Mamluk conquest of Acre