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1099

EVENTS

Siege Of Jerusalem during the First Crusade :

--- July 8 - 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march around Jerusalem .

--- January 13 - Crusaders set fire to Mara , Syria .

--- July 15 - Christian soldiers under Godfrey Of Bouillon , Robert II Of Flanders , Raymond IV Of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem after a difficult siege, killing nearly every inhabitant.

August 12 - the crusaders defeat the Fatimids at the Battle Of Ascalon .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

July 29 - Pope Urban II (b. 1042 )

El Cid

Peter Bartholomew , mystic and crusader

King Donald III Of Scotland