Timeline+of+the+Crusades

Timeline of All Crusades This is a list of all of the Crusades, including insignificant ones and the Children's Crusade. As you can see, all of the Crusades were started by European Christian leaders. Timeline of The First Crusade This is a timeline that follows the events and some battles of the very first Crusade. This is especially important because the first Crusade was the most successful and the most important. 
 * Crusade || Dates of Crusade || Crusades Timeline of Events ||
 * First Crusade || 1096 - 1099 || The People's Crusade - Freeing the Holy Lands. 1st Crusade led by Count Raymond IV of Toulouse and proclaimed by many wandering preachers, notably Peter the Hermit ||
 * Second Crusade || 1144 -1155 || Crusaders prepared to attack Damascus. 2nd crusade led by Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III and by King Louis VII of France ||
 * Third Crusade || 1187 -1192 || 3rd Crusade led by Richard the Lionheart of England, Philip II of France, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I. Richard I made a truce with Saladin ||
 * Fourth Crusade || 1202 -1204 || 4th Crusade led by Fulk of Neuil French/Flemish advanced on Constantinople ||
 * The Children's Crusade || 1212 || The Children's Crusade led by a French peasant boy, Stephen of Cloyes ||
 * Fifth Crusade || 1217 - 1221 || The 5th Crusade led by King Andrew II of Hungary, Duke Leopold VI of Austria, John of Brienne ||
 * Sixth Crusade || 1228 - 1229 || The 6th Crusade led by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II ||
 * Seventh Crusade || 1248 - 1254 || The 7th Crusade led by Louis IX of France ||
 * Eighth Crusade || 1270 || The 8th Crusade led by Louis IX of France ||
 * Ninth Crusade || 1271 - 1272 || The 9th Crusade led by Prince Edward (later Edward I of England) ||
 * Timeline Key Dates || Crusades Timeline of Events ||
 * 1071 || Byzantine army is destroyed by Turks ||
 * 1071 - 1085 || Mercenary Seljuk Turks conquer Syria and Palestine. The City of Jerusalem is taken from the more civilised Saracen caliphs ||
 * 1085 - 1095 || 3000 Christian Pilgrims were massacred in Jerusalem and the Christian churches were destroyed or used as stables ||
 * 1095 || Emperor Alexius I sent an embassy to Pope Urban II regarding the atrocities in Jerusalem and the growing threat of the Turks to Constantinople and the whole of Europe ||
 * 1095 || Pope Urban II called a great council of the Church at Placentia, in Italy, to consider the appeal - decisions were deferred until later in the year ||
 * 1095 November 27 || Pope Urban II called a great council of clergy and nobles to meet at Clermont in France called the Council of Clermont. He called for a crusade against the Infidels ||
 * 1095 - Spring 1096 || Peter the Hermit took up the cry "God wills it!" and ordinary people join in the 'People's Crusade' - most were unarmed ||
 * Summer 1096 || Armed forces gathered at Constantinople to embark on the First Crusade ||
 * August 1096 || Emperor Alexius I shipped the Peoples Crusade over the Bosphorus ||
 * October 1096 || The Peoples Crusade were annihilated by the Turks in Anatolia ||
 * May – June 1097 || Siege of Nicacea ||
 * July 1097 || Battle of Dorylaeum ||
 * Oct 1097 - June 1098 || The Siege of Antioch ||
 * 1098 June 1 || Stephen of Blois and numerous French crusaders flee the siege of Antioch with news of the arrival of Emir Kerboga of Mosul ||
 * 1098 June 3 || Bohemond I, elder son of Robert Guiscard, led the capture of Antioch ||
 * 1098 June 5 || Emir Kerboga of Mosul and his army of 75,000 lays siege to the crusaders led by Bohemond ||
 * 1099 Feb 14 - June || The siege of Arqah, near Tripoli ||
 * 1098 June 28 || The Battle of Orontes. The First Crusade wins a victory forcing Emir Kerboga to lift the siege of Antioch ||
 * 1099 June 13 || Raymond of Toulouse leads the crusaders from Antioch and to Jerusalem ||
 * 1099 July 15 || The soldiers of the First Crusade successfully scale the walls of Jerusalem and take the Holy city ||

These charts were taken from:[| http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/the-crusades.htm]