| March 1095 | Byzantium delegation asks for Urban’s help against the Turks |
| November 1095 | Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade |
| Spring 1096 | People’s Crusade leaves; 3 armies don’t make it past Hungary |
| August 1st 1096 | Peter the Hermit and Walter Sansavoir reach Constantinople |
| August 15th 1096 | Official start of First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II |
| October 6th 1096 | Armies under Peter and Walter destroyed at Nicaea by Kilij Arslan |
| Autumn 1096 | Leaders (and armies) of the official First Crusade arrive at staggered times at Constantinople. Alexius I Comnenus asks for and receives oaths of fealty and promises to return lands formerly under Byzantine control |
| April 1097 | Crusaders cross the Bosphorus |
| June 19th 1097 | Nicaea surrenders |
| June 16th – 28th 1097 | Crusaders head into Asia Minor |
| July 1st 1097 | Turks under Kilij Arslan unsuccessfully attack the crusaders at Dorlyaeum |
| October 21st 1097 | Crusaders reach Antioch |
| February 6th 1098 | Baldwin reaches Edessa whose prince is Thoros |
| March 10th 1098 | Baldwin takes control of Edessa. Start of the first Latin settlement in the East |
| June 5th 1098 | Muslim army under Kerbogha arrives and besieges the crusaders in Antioch |
| June 14th 1098 | Crusaders believe they have found the Holy Lance |
| June 28th 1098 | Crusaders attack besiegers and win; they then decide to wait out the summer before continuing |
| August 1st 1098 | Adhémar of Le Puy dies, exacerbating crusaders’ leadership problems |
| July 15th 1099 | Crusaders seize and sack Jerusalem |
| July 19th 1099 | Pope Urban II dies, never hearing news of capture of Jerusalem |
| July 22nd 1099 | Godfrey elected ruler of settlement at Jerusalem |
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