Crusades Timeline: 1215-1220
Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.
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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 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
| Events in Outremer | Events in Europe | ||
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| 1215 | Jan 8 | Simon de Montfort elected Lord of Languedoc | |
| Apr 25 | Louis IX born | ||
| May 17 | Barons in revolt against John; they take London | ||
| Jun 19 | Magna Carta signed at Runnymede | ||
| Aug 28 | Innocent excommunicates John's opponents | ||
| Sep | Innocent annuls Magna Carta | ||
| Oct 13 | John lays siege to Rochester Castle, a rebel stronghold | ||
| Nov | Fourth Lateran Council begins | ||
| Fourth Lateran Council institutes the first papal tithe of the clergy | |||
| Fourth Lateran Council decrees Jews must wear distinctive clothing | |||
| Kublai Khan born | |||
| 1216 | Jan | John invades Scotland | |
| May 21 | Philip's son Louis lands in England at the invitation of the barons | ||
| Jun 11 | Death of Henry of Flanders, Latin Emperor of Constantinople; succeeded by Peter of Courtenay | ||
| Jul 16 | Death of Innocent III; succeeded by Honorius III | ||
| Aug 24 | Beaucaire falls to Raymond of Toulouse | ||
| Oct 19 | Death of King John; succeeded by Henry III, a minor | ||
| Nov 12 | Henry's council re-issues Magna Carta | ||
| Leo of Armenia captures Antioch | |||
| Dominicans recognized by Honorius | |||
| Poor Clares recognized by Honorius | |||
| 1217 | May 20 | William the Marshal and loyalists defeat Louis and the rebels at Lincoln | |
| Jun | Death of Henry of Castile; succeeded by Ferdinand III | ||
| Aug 23 | French fleet destroyed by English off Sandwich | ||
| Sep 12 | English rebels yield; Louis is paid to leave | ||
| Sep 25 | Afonso of Portugal defeats Muslims at Alcazar de Sol | ||
| Nov | First contingents of the Fifth Crusade arrive in Palestine | ||
| Inge II succeeded as King of Norway by Haakon IV | |||
| Bishop Albert of Riga defeats Estonians at Fellin | |||
| Stephen of Rascia crowned King of Serbia | |||
| Peter of Courtenay captured by Theodore Ducas, Despot of Epirus | |||
| First Franciscans arrive in Paris | |||
| 1218 | Jan 10 | Death of Hugh I of Cyprus; succeeded by his son Henry I | |
| Mar | Henry makes peace with Llewelyn of Wales | ||
| May | Frederick makes Berne an imperial free city | ||
| May 19 | Death of Otto IV, formerly Holy Roman Emperor | ||
| May 29 | Fifth Crusade lands at Damietta | ||
| Jun 25 | Simon de Montfort killed at siege of Toulouse | ||
| Aig 1 | Pope Honorius proclaims a second Albigensian Crusade | ||
| Aug 25 | Crusaders take a fort outside Damietta | ||
| Aug 31 | Death of Sultan al-Adil; succeeded by his sons, al-Kamil in Egypt and al Mu`azzam in Damascus | ||
| Waldemar of Denmark invades Estonia and builds a castle at Reval | |||
| Amiens Cathedral burns | |||
| 1219 | May 2 | Death of Leo II, King of Armenia | |
| May 14 | Death of William the Marshal | ||
| Aug | St. Francis preaches in Egypt to the Sultan | ||
| Aug 1 | Louis VII abandons the Albigensian Crusade | ||
| Nov 5 | Crusaders take Damietta | ||
| Honorius III bans the teaching of Roman law at the University of Paris | |||
| 1220 | Mar | Charles of Anjou born | |
| May | St. Francis resigns as governor of his order | ||
| May | First general chapter of the Dominicans | ||
| Aug 5 | Crusader army trapped at Mansourah and forced to surrender | ||
| Sep 8 | Crusaders evacuate Damietta | ||
| Nov 22 | Pope Honorius crowns Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor | ||
| John I succeeds Eric X as King of Sweden | |||
| Reconstruction of Amiens Cathedral begun | |||
| Salisbury Cathedral begun | |||
| Michael Scot translates Averroes' commentaries on Aritstotle | |||
| The Elder Edda begun (Norse saga) | |||
| Bohemond recovers Antioch from Raymond-Roupen of Armenia | |||
| Alfonso XI of Leon founds University of Salamanca | |||
| Nôtre Dame at Paris completed | |||