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“The Sack of Jerusalem [was] “the starting point of a millennial hostility between Islam and the West.” --The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (1983), Amin Maalouf |
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Year 1099 (MXCIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
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Events
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Asia
- Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade:
- January 13 – Crusaders set fire to Ma'arra, 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 after a difficult siege.
- July 22 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem is founded.
- August 12 – The Crusaders defeat the Fatimids at the Battle of Ascalon.
- Supposed founding of the Priory of Sion
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Religion
- August 14 – Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope.
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Births
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Deaths
- April 14 – Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht (b. 1003)
- April 20 – Peter Bartholomew (b. 1061)
- July 10 – El Cid (b. 1043)
- July 29 – Pope Urban II (b. 1035)
- December 3 – Saint Osmund (b. 1065)
- King Donald III of Scotland (b. before 1040)
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