1099
EventsSiege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade:* July 8 - 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them. * July 15 - Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem after a difficult siege.August 12- the crusaders defeat the Fatimids at the Battle of Ascalon.
Births
Deaths July 29 - Pope Urban II El Cid - (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) Peter Bartholomew - a mystic who participated in the First Crusade
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