Crusaders capture Jerusalem
The First Crusade ends with a new kingdom in the Levant
Knights of the First Crusade, proclaimed by Pope Urban II in 1095, stormed Jerusalem and massacred its inhabitants. The Kingdom of Jerusalem was founded, and the Crusades shaped relations between Europe and the Middle East for two centuries.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1077 Walk to Canossa — 22 years earlier
- c. 1088 University of Bologna — 11 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — 14 years later
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — 14 years later
Asia
- c. 1113–1150 Construction of Angkor Wat — 14 years later
Alive at the time
- Omar Khayyam (aged 51)
- Henry IV (aged 49)
- Vladimir II Monomakh (aged 46)
- Hildegard of Bingen (aged 1)
- Yuri Dolgoruky (aged 0)
- Sviatopolk II (aged 49)
- Philip I (aged 47)
- Nestor the Chronicler (aged 43)
- William II Rufus (aged 43)
- Al-Ghazali (aged 41)