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1099

Year 1099 (MXCIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Asia

  • Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade:
  • January 13 – Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
  • June 7 – The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
  • July 8 – 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march around Jerusalem.
  • July 15 – Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem at the end of this difficult siege.
  • July 22 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem is founded in the Middle East.
  • August 12 – The Crusaders defeat the Fatimids at the Battle of Ascalon.

    • Religion

  • August 13 – Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope.

    • Births

  • Muhammad al-Idrisi (d. 1165)
  • Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester (d. 1153)
  • William X, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1137)
  • Approximate date – Henry of Blois, Norman bishop of Winchester (d. 1171)

    • Deaths

  • April 14 – Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht (b. before 1040)
  • April 20 – Peter Bartholomew (b. 1061)
  • July 29 – Pope Urban II (b. 1035)
  • December 3 – Saint Osmund (b. 1065)
  • El Cid, Castilian nobleman and military leader (b. 1043)
  • King Donald III of Scotland (b. before 1040)

    • References

    1099 Wikipedia
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