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 •
1198-1214 •
1215-1220 •
1221-1229 •
1230-1248 •
1249-1257 •
1258-1269 •
1270-1291 •
| Events in Outremer | Events in Europe | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1188 | Jan | Treaty of Gisors; truce between Henry and Philip; they impose the Saladin Tithe | |
| Mar 27 | Frederick takes the cross; Henry the Lion again exiled | ||
| Jul | Saladin releases Guy of Jerusalem | ||
| Nov 11 | Henry, Philip and Richard meet at Bonmoulins; Richard swears fealty to Philip, thus breaking with his father | ||
| Kilij Arslan II abdicates; the Sultanate of Rum is divided among his eleven sons; civil war breaks out | |||
| First Cortes of Leon to have representatives from the towns | |||
| 1189 | May | Frederick departs on crusade from Regensburg Castle | |
| Jul | Sancho of Portugal captures Avila | ||
| Jul 3 | Philip takes Tours; Henry capitulates the next day | ||
| Jul 6 | Death of Henry II | ||
| Aug 28 | Guy of Jerusalem begins the siege of Acre | ||
| Sep 3 | Richard I crowned King of England | ||
| Nov 18 | Death of William II of Sicily; his illegitimate cousin, Tancred of Lecce, seizes the throne with papal support | ||
| Dec 12 | Richard leaves England on crusade | ||
| Hamburg becomes a Free Imperial City | |||
| 1190 | Feb | Frederick enters Asia Minor | |
| May | Bernard of Anhalt defeats Henry the Lion at Segeberg | ||
| May 18 | Frederick captures Konya | ||
| Jun 10 | Frederick drowns in Saleph River in Cilicia | ||
| Jun 21 | Survivors of the German crusade reach Antioch | ||
| Jul 4 | Philip and Richard meet at Vézelay, then set out on crusade together | ||
| Oct 4 | Richard seizes Messina in Sicily | ||
| Foundation of the Teutonic Knights | |||
| First record of coal mining, near Liège | |||
| 1191 | Mar 30 | Pope Clement IV dies; Celestine III elected | |
| Apr 15 | Celestine crowns Henry VI as Emperor | ||
| Apr 20 | Philip arrives at Acre | ||
| May | Richard conquers Cyprus | ||
| Jul 12 | Crusaders capture Acre | ||
| Aug | Due to fever in his army, Henry of Austria returns to Germany | ||
| Aug 3 | Philip sails home to France | ||
| Sep 7 | Battle of Arsuf | ||
| Jan | Richard camps at Beit-Nuba, twelve miles from Jerusalem, but must withdraw to fortify Ascalon | ||
| Mar | Philip takes possession of the County of Provence | ||
| Apr 5 | Guy deposed as King of Jerusalem, gaining Cyprus instead; Conrad of Montferrat elected King | ||
| Apr 28 | Conrad killed by Assassins; Henry of Champagne elected King | ||
| May 23 | Richard takes Daron; Latins again control the coast of Palestine | ||
| Jun | Richard camps within sight of Jerusalem, but withdraws | ||
| Jun | Celestine recognizes Tancred as King of Sicily | ||
| Jun 21 | Enrico Dandolo becomes Doge of Venice | ||
| Jul 30 | Saladin takes Jaffa | ||
| Jul 31 | Richard drives Saladin out of Jaffa | ||
| Sep 2 | Richard and Saladin conclude a three-year truce | ||
| Oct 9 | Richard leaves Palestine | ||
| Dec 11 | Richard captured near Vienna | ||
| 1193 | Feb 14 | Leo turns Richard over to Emperor Henry VI | |
| Mar 3 | Death of Saladin | ||
| Oct | Leo II of Armenia captures Bohemond III of Antioch | ||
| Death of Rashid ad-Din Sinan, the "Old Man of the Mountain" | |||
| Albertus Magnus born | |||
| 1194 | Jan | Philip and John offer to ransom Richard from Henry | |
| Feb 3 | Richard released at Mainz | ||
| Feb 20 | Death of Tancred of Sicily; succeeded by his son William III | ||
| Mar | Henry VI makes peace with Henry the Lion | ||
| Mar 12 | Richard returns to England | ||
| Mar 28 | Richard captures Nottingham Castle, ending John's revolt | ||
| Apr 17 | Richard again crowned | ||
| May | Death of Guy of Cyprus; succeeded by his brother Amalric | ||
| May 4 | Death of Casimir III of Poland; civil war follows | ||
| May 12 | Richard leaves England to make war in France | ||
| Jun 10 | Chartres Cathedral burns, leaving only the west façade standing; the reconstruction of the church markes the beginning of High Gothic | ||
| Jul 4 | Richard defeats Philip at Fréteval | ||
| Nov 20 | Henry VI enters Palermo, completing his conquest of Sicily | ||
| Dec 25 | Henry VI crowned King of Sicily | ||
| Dec 26 | Birth of Frederick II | ||
| 1195 | Apr 2 | Henry VI has a crusade proclaimed at Bari | |
| Apr 8 | Emperor Isaac II deposed by his brother Alexius III | ||
| Aug 6 | Henry the Lion dies | ||
| 1196 | Jan | Treaty of Louviers, peace between Richard and Philip | |
| Apr 25 | Death of Alfonso II of Aragon; succeeded by his son Pedro II | ||
| Jul | Philip goes to war with Richard again | ||
| Jul | Al-'Adil, Saladin's brother, takes Egypt | ||
| Dec 25 | Frederick II elected King of the Romans | ||
| 1197 | Sep 10 | Death of Henry of Champagne, King of Jerusalem | |
| Sep 28 | Death of Emperor Henry VI | ||
| Château Gaillard built by Richard I | |||