Crusades Timeline: 1164-1187

Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.

• 1095-1099 • 1100-1120 • 1121-1144 • 1145-1163 • 1164-1187 • 1188-1197 • 1198-1214 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
Events in Outremer Events in Europe
1164 Jan Constitutions of Clarendon (England)
May 16 Héloise dies, age 63
Aug 10 Nur-ad-Din defeats and captures Bohemond III of Antioch at Artah; he is later ransomed
Oct 8 Becket condemned for defiance of the English king by Council of Northampton
Nov 2 Becket begins his exile in France
Petronilla of Aragon abdicates in favor of her son, Alfonso II, Count of Barcelona
Muslims recapture Cordova
1165 May 7 Death of William I the Bad of Sicily
Aug 21 Philip II of France born. Henry VI of Germany born
Nov 23 Pope Alexander enters Rome
Dec 9 Death of Malcolm IV of Scotland; succeeded by his brother William I the Lion
1166 Emperor Frederick I begins his fourth expedition to Italy
Assize of Clarendon (England)
Boleslav IV of Poland defeated by the pagan Prussi tribes
1167 Mar 18 King Amalric of Jerusalem defeated by Syrians at Ashmun
Apr 27 Lombard League formed to oppose Emperor Frederick I
May 29 Imperial forces defeat the Romans outside Rome
Jul 24 Frederick camps outside Rome; Pope Alexander flees
Aug The imperial army is ravaged by disease; Frederick returns to Germany
Aug 4 Saladin surrenders Alexandria to Amalric
Sep 10 Death of Mathilda
Dec 24 Birth of John of England. Birth of Ghengiz Khan.
1168 Nov 4 Amalric invades Egypt; captures Bilbeis
Nov 13 Amalric camps outside Cairo, but is forced to withdraw upon the arrival of reinforcements sent by Nur-ad-din
Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, marries Matilda, daughter of King Henry II of England
Charles VII of Sweden defeated, killed and succeeded by Cnut Ericson
Death of Thoros of Armenia; succeeded by his son Roupen II
1169 Mar 23 Saladin becomes Vizir of Egypt
Aug 15 Henry VI elected King of the Romans; Frederick is still Emperor
Dec 13 Amalric and his Greek allies abandon their siege of Damietta
1170 Jul 22 Henry and Becket are reconciled
Nov 18 Death of Albert the Bear, Margrave of Brandenburg
Nov 23 Death of Owain the Great, King of Gwynned (Wales)
Dec 29 Murder of Thomas Becket
Roger of Salerno publishes Practica Chirurgiae, earliest book in Europe on surgery
Peter Waldo initiates the movement of Poor Men of Lyons
Birth of St. Dominic
1171 Mar 12 Emperor Manuel orders arrest of all Venetians in his territories; Venetians make war on his possessions in retaliation
Sep 13 Death of al-`Adid, last Fatimid Caliph of Egypt
Oct 16 Henry II of England lands in Ireland, receives submission of local princes
Nur-ad-Din captures Mosul
Helmold publishes Chronicle of the Slavs
1172 May 21 Henry absolved for the murder of Becket
Mar Henry II's sons rebel, supported by Louis VII
Oct 30 Death of Boleslav IV of Poland
Death of Stephen III of Hungary; succeeded by Béla III
1174 May 15 Death of Nur-ad-din
Jul 11 Death of Amalric I of Jerusalem; succeeded by his son Baldwin IV
Jul 12 Henry II does penance at Canterbury for Becket's murder
Aug 14 Henry makes peace with Louis
Sep 30 Henry makes peace with his sons
Nov 26 Saladin enters Damascus
1175 Apr 16 Frederick makes peace with Lombard League
May The Caliph of Baghdad recognizes Saladin as Sultan of Egypt and Syria
1176 Apr 26 Saladin defeats Safadin of Mosul
May 29 Lombard League defeats Frederick at Legnano
Sep 17 Emperor Manuel defeated by Kilij Arslan II at Myriocephalum; a major defeat for the Byzantine Empire.
Oct Treaty of Anagni; Frederick recognizes Alexander as pope, ending the long schism
1177 Jul 23 Frederick makes truce with Lombard League
Nov 25 Baldwin defeats Saladin at Montgisard
Mieszko III of Poland succeeded by Casimir II
1178 Jul 30 Frederick crowned King of Burgundy at Arles
1179 Mar Third Lateran Council
Jun 10 Saladin defeats Baldwin at the Litani River
Jun 24 Henry the Lion put under the ban of the Empire
Sep 17 Death of St. Hildegarde of Bingen (age 81)
Jan 13 Henry the Lion dispossessed of his Saxon fiefs by Frederick
Apr Philip II of France marries Isabel of Hainault, heiress to Artois
Jun 29 Death of Safadin
Sep 18 Death of Louis VII; succeeded by his son Philip II
Sep 24 Death of Manuel; succeeded by his son Alexius II
Oct 25 Death of John of Salisbury (age 60)
Earliest European reference to a stern-post rudder
First mention of a windmill in Europe (Normandy)
College des Dix-huit, first college of University of Paris
1181 Aug 30 Death of Pope Alexander III; succeeded by Cardinal Ubald of Ostia as Pope Lucius III
Henry II's sons again rebel
Lübeck surrenders to Frederick; Henry the Lion banished to England for three years
St. Francis of Asissi born
Mainz Cathedral begun
Cardinal-bishop Henry of Albano directs fighting against Albigensians
1182 May 12 Death of Waldemar I the Great of Denmark; succeeded by his son, Cnut VI
Jul Battle of Belvoir between Saladin and Baldwin, inconclusive
Sep Andronicus I Comnenus usurps the Greek Empire; he murders Alexius II, his mother, and her advisers
Oct Saladin captures Edessa
Reynald of Châtillon raids as far south as the Red Sea
1183 Jun 11 Death of Prince Henry, son of Henry II
Jun 18 Saladin takes Aleppo
Jun 25 Treaty of Constance; Frederick makes peace with the Lombard League
Aug 24 Saladin makes Damascus his capital
1184 Jun 15 Magnus VI of Norway defeated and killed by Sverre
Death of King George IV of Georgia; succeeded by his daughter, Thamar
Cyprus rebels against Greek rule
William of Tyre, History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea
Danish missionaries begin conversion of the Livs (Latvia)
1185 Mar Death of Baldwin IV; succeeded by his nephew, Baldwin V
John of England unsuccessfully invades Ireland
Jun William of Sicily invades the Greek Empire, capturing Durazzo and Corfú
Jul Treaty of Boves, by which Philip II of France acquires Amiens and other territories from Flanders
Aug Normans sack Salonika
Sep Henry the Lion returns to Germany
Sep Emperor Andronicus killed in a riot in Constantinople; succeeded by his cousin, Isaac II Angleus, who defeats the Norman invasion at Mosinopolis
Nov 24 Death of Pope Lucius III; succeeded by Urban III
Oxford University established
1186 Jan 27 Henry VI marries Constance of Sicily; he is crowned king of Burgundy, Germany, and Italy
Jun Pope Urban encourages Archbishop of Cologne to rebel against Frederick, forcing the emperor to return from Italy
Aug Death of Baldwin V; succeeded by his mother, Sybilla, who then crowns her husband Guy of Lusignan as King of Jerusalem
Sep Theodore and Asen free Bulgaria from Greek rule; their allies, the Cumans, raid in Thrace
1187 Jul 3 Horns of Hattin
Sep 5 Birth of Louis VIII
Oct 3 Saladin captures Jerusalem
Oct 20 Death of Urban III; succeeded by Gregory VIII
Nov Conrad of Montferrat repulses Saladin's attack on Tyre
Dec 17 Death of Gregory VIII; succeeded by Clement III
Gerard of Cremona translates nearly 100 Greek and Arab works into Latin