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[edit] 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.