| 715. | The domains of the Caliph Walid I extended from the Pyrenees to China. | |
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| 1066. | Conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy. | |
| 1071. | Revival of Islam under the Seljuk Turks. Battle of Melasgird. | |
| 1073. | Hildebrand became Pope (Gregory VII) to 1085. | |
| 1084. | Robert Guiscard, the Norman, sacked Rome. | |
| 1087-99. | Urban II Pope. | |
| 1095. | Urban II at Clermont summoned the First Crusade. | |
| 1096. | Massacre of the People’s Crusade. | |
| 1099. | Godfrey of Bouillon captured Jerusalem. | |
| 1147. | The Second Crusade. | |
| 1169. | Saladin Sultan of Egypt. | |
| 1176. | Frederick Barbarossa acknowledged supremacy of the Pope (Alexander III) at Venice. | |
| 1187. | Saladin captured Jerusalem. | |
| 1189. | The Third Crusade. | |
| 1198. | Innocent III Pope (to 1216). Frederick II (aged four), King of Sicily, became his ward. | |
| 1202. | The Fourth Crusade attacked the Eastern Empire. | |
| 1204. | Capture of Constantinople by the Latins. | |
| 1214. | Jengis Khan took Pekin. | |
| 1226. | St. Francis of Assisi died. (The Franciscans.) |
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