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Chronology of the later Crusades through 1400

The chronology of the later Crusades through 1400 provides a detailed timeline of the Crusades from after the Eighth Crusade, the last of the major expeditions to the Holy Land through the end of the 14th century. This includes the events from 1270 on that led to the Fall of Outremer in 1291 and the Crusades after Acre, 1291–1399.

Chronologies of the Crusades in print

Numerous chronologies of the Crusades have been published and include the following.

  • A Chronology of the Crusades, covering the crusades from 1055 to 1456, by Timothy Venning.
  • Chronology and Maps, covering 1095–1789, in The Oxford History of the Crusades, edited by Jonathan Riley-Smith.
  • A Chronological Outline of the Crusades: Background, Military Expeditions, and Crusader States, covering 160–1798, in The Routledge Companion to the Crusades, by Peter Lock.
  • A Narrative Outline of the Crusades, covering 1096–1488, ibid.
  • The Crusades: A Chronology, covering 1096–1444, in The Crusades—An Encyclopedia, edited by Alan V. Murray.
  • Important Dates and Events, 1049–1571, in History of the Crusades, Volume III, edited by Kenneth M. Setton (1975).
  • Historical Dictionary of the Crusades, by Corliss K. Slack. Chronology from 1009 to 1330.
  • Oxford Reference Timelines: Crusades, 1095–1303; Byzantine Empire, 330 – c. 1480; Ottoman Empire, c. 1295 – 1923.

13th century

Prior events

1270

1271

1272

1273

1274

1275

  • March. Baibars continues his campaign against Armenia and demands the return of the Christian half of Latakia.
  • 13 May. Marinid forces led by Abu Yusuf Yaqub begin their first Invasion of Spain.
  • 4 June. Hugh III negotiates a truce with Baibars that protects Latakia in exchange for an annual tribute.
  • Spring. Marco Polo arrives at the court of Kublai Khan.
  • (Date unknown). Philip III of France and Rudolf I of Germany take the cross without corresponding action.

1276

  • 10 January. Gregory X dies. Innocent V elected pope on 21 January, dies on 22 June.
  • 19 January. Abu Yusuf Yaqub ends his invasion of Spain, and, with Muhammad II of Granada, agrees to a truce with Alfonso X of Castile for two years.
  • 11 July. Adrian V elected pope under the influence of Charles I of Anjou, dies five weeks later.
  • 27 August. James I of Aragon dies, and is succeeded by his son Peter III of Aragon.
  • 8 September. John XXI elected pope, dies after just eight months.
  • October. Templars purchase La Fauconnerie (La Féve), omitting to secure Hugh's consent.
  • October. Hugh III relocates from Acre to Cyprus.

1277

1278

1279

1280

1281

  • 22 February. Martin IV elected pope.
  • 10 April. Michael VIII Palaiologos excommunicated by Martin IV who renounces union of churches approved at Lyon in 1274.
  • 3 May. Qalawun renews truce with the Kingdom of Jerusalem for another ten years.
  • 16 July. Bohemond VII of Tripoli agrees to Qalawun's truce for the County of Tripoli.
  • 29 October. Mamluks defeat a coalition of Mongols, Armenians and Hospitallers at the second Battle of Homs.

1282

  • January. Bohemond VII kills Guy II Embriaco, alienating the Genoese.
  • 30 March. The War of the Sicilian Vespers begins with European powers and the papacy vying for control of Sicily.
  • 28 April. Charles I of Anjou's fleet at Messina sunk, Mategriffon castle forced to surrender.
  • 1 May. Guelphs and Ghibellines fight at the Battle of Forti, with the Guelph army defeated.
  • 6 May. Tekuder becomes ruler of the Ilkhanate after the death of his brother Abaqa on 1 April, and soon converts to Islam taking the name Ahmad.
  • 25 August. Tekuder sends embassy to Qalawun seeking alliance.
  • 30 August. Peter III of Aragon lands in Sicily, claims crown four days later and is excommunicated by Martin IV.
  • September/October. Hungary defeats the Cumans at the Battle of Lake Hód.
  • 11 December. Andronikos II Palaiologos becomes Byzantine emperor, succeeding Michael VIII Palaiologos.
  • (Date unknown). Roger of Lauria named commander of the Aragonese fleet.
  • (Date unknown). George Akropolites publishes Annales (Chronike Syngraphe), the main Greek source for the period 1203–1261.

1283

1284

1285

1286

  • March. Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr becomes Marinid sultan of Morocco upon the death of his father.
  • 24 June. Henry II returns to Acre.
  • 29 July. Angevin bailli Odo Poilechien, loyal to Charles II, hands the citadel over to Henry II at the insistence of the three military orders.
  • 15 August. Henry II crowned king of Jerusalem at Tyre. A few weeks later, he returns to Cyprus after appointing Philip of Ibelin as regent.

1287

1288

1289

1290

  • 10 February. Nicholas IV calls for a crusade against the Mamluks.
  • August. Venetian and Aragonese crusaders arrive at Acre, and instigate a massacre of Muslims in the city.
  • Fall. Egyptian army mobilizes towards Acre.
  • 4 November. Qalawun leaves Cairo for Syria, en route to Acre. He dies six days later.
  • 10 November. Qalawun's son al-Ashraf Khalil becomes Mamluk sultan.

1291

1292

1293

1294

1295

1296

1297

  • (Date unknown). Boniface VIII organizes crusades against Frederick III of Sicily and the Colonna family.

1298

1299

14th century

1300

  • 6 January. After a short siege, the Mongols occupy the Citadel of Damascus.
  • Feb. Boniface VIII announces first Jubilee Year in Rome, promotes a crusade.
  • May. Mongols withdraw across the Euphrates. Mamluks then return to Syria from Egypt.
  • 20 September. Italian diplomat Isol the Pisan appointed by Boniface VIII to be the laison between the Crusader states and the Mongol Empire.
  • 28 October. After learning of an impending Mongol invasion of Syria, al-Nasir Muhammad leads an army to confront the invaders.
  • 30 December. Ghazan invades Syria, turning back less than five weeks later due to cold weather that kills almost all of his cavalry's 12,000 horses.
  • (Date unknown). Swedes under Tyrgils Knutsson lead an attack against the Novgorodians and establish an outpost at Landskrona.
  • (Date approximate). Via ad Terram Sanctam, an anonymous Old French treatise on the recovery of the Holy Land written.

1301

1302

1303

1304

1305

  • 30 April. Michael IX Palaiologos has Roger de Flor assassinated in Adrianople along with 300 horsemen and some 1,000 foot soldiers who accompanied him.
  • 5 June. Clement V elected pope.
  • 10 July. Catalan Company defeats the Byzantines at the Battle of Apros beginning what was known as the Catalan Vengeance.
  • (Date unknown). Foulques de Villaret becomes 25th Grand Master of the Hospitallers.
  • (Date unknown). Clement V proposes to Foulques and Jacques de Molay that their Orders be merged.
  • (Date unknown). Majorcan Christian apologist Ramon Lull proposes Oriental languages be taught in the West, presents Liber de Fine to James II of Aragon proposing new crusades against the Muslims.

1306

1307

1308

1309

  • March. Avignon Papacy begins.
  • 29 April. Clement V issues the papal bull Prioribus decanis allowing Ferdinand IV of Castile to finance the war against Granada.
  • 5 May. Robert the Wise succeeds his father Charles II in Naples.
  • Spring/summer. Crusade of the Poor begun, ends without reaching the Holy Land.
  • 18 July. Siege of Almeria launched by James II of Aragon against Granada fails.
  • 27 July. The first Siege of Algeciras launched by Ferdinand IV against Nasr of Granada. Castile is defeated January 1310.
  • 15 August. The first Siege of Gibraltar is launched, resulting in a Castilian victory.
  • 13 September. Treaty of Soldin provides legal basis for the Teuton occupation of Gdańsk.
  • (Date unknown). Jean de Joinville publishes Life of Saint Louis, his definitive biography of Louis IX of France and a history of the Seventh Crusade.
  • (Date unknown). Ramon Lull writes Liber de acquisitione terrae sanctae proposing land-based crusade via Constantinople.
  • (Date unknown). Teutonic Knights move their headquarters from Venice to Malbork Castle in Marienburg.

1310

1311

1312

1313

  • Pentecost. Philip IV and his sons take the cross in Paris for a crusade to depart in the spring of 1319.
  • (Date unknown). Second version of Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis calls for economic warfare and provides a history of the Holy Land.

1314

1315

1316

1317

1318

1319

1320

1321

1322

1323

  • (Date unknown). Orkhan succeeds his father Osman I as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

1324

1325

1326

1327

1328

1329

1330

1331

1332

1333

  • February–June. Muhammed IV successfully captures Gibraltar from the Castilians after the third Siege of Gibraltar.
  • 26 June – 24 August. The fourth Siege of Gibraltar, a counterattack by Castile, is unsuccessful.
  • (Date unknown). Ottomans begin the Siege of Nicomedia.
  • (Date unknown). Marino Sanuto Torcello writes Istoria del regno di Romania, an account of the last days of the Latin Empire and the reconquest of Constantinople.

1334

1335

  • (Date unknown). Hospitallers encourage emigration to Rhodes, increasing population.

1336

1337

1339

1340

1341

1342

1343

1344

  • 25 March. Algeciras surrenders to Alfonso XI. Only Gibraltar remained in Muslim hand.
  • 13 May. Christians defeat large flotilla of Turkish raiders at the Battle of Pallene.
  • 28 October. Assault on Smyrna ends the first Smyrniote Crusades.

1345

1346

1347

1348

1349

1350

  • 26 March. Alfonso XI of Castile dies of bubonic plague, leading to the Castilian Civil War the next year.
  • 27 March. Latest attempt by Castile to retake Gibraltar fails.
  • 22 August. John II of France becomes king upon the death of his father Philip VI.

1351

  • September. Smyrniote Crusades ends with the city in Christian hands and will remain so for 60 years.

1352

1353

  • 30 June. Innocent VI sends Gil de Albornoz as papal legate into Italy at the head of a small mercenary army with a view to the restoration of the papal authority in the states of the Church.
  • 11 September. Claude de la Sengle named Grand Master of the Order of Malta.

1354

1355

1357

1358

1359

1360

1361

1362

  • January. Castilians routed by the forces of Muhammed VI of Granada at the Battle of Guadix.
  • March. Murad I becomes Ottoman sultan.
  • 13 April. Muhammad VI flees Granada, is murdered by the orders of Peter of Castile two weeks later.
  • 22 September. Urban V elected pope.
  • October. Peter I of Cyprus announces intention to conduct a crusade to the Holy Land and travels to Europe to promote the expedition.

1363

  • 31 March. Urban V proclaims a crusade and grants the signum crucis to Peter I and John II of France, to start not later than 1 March 1365.
  • The pope urges Louis I of Hungary to crusade against the Turks.

1364

1365

1366

1367

1368

  • (Date unknown). Philippe de Mézières writes Nova religio passionis, a prospectus for a new religious order dedicated to crusading. Enlarged in 1385 and 1396.

1369

1370

1371

1373

1374

  • March. Genoese take James I of Cyprus hostage to force the Cypriots to agree to their terms.
  • 21 April. Cyprus agrees to Genoa's terms and the Genoese depart, leaving the island devastated.

1375

1376

1377

1378

1379

  • 1 July. John V Palaiologos restored as Byzantine emperor, ending the fourth Byzantine civil war.

1380

1381

1382

1383

1384

1385

1386

1387

1388

1389

1390

1391

1392

1393

  • 17 July. Ottomans capture Bulgarian capital city after the Siege of Tarnovo, reducing the empire to a few fortresses along the Danube.

1394

1395

1396

1398

1399

15th century

1400

  • October–November. Timurids defeat the Mamluks at the Sack of Aleppo.
  • (Date unknown). Siege of Damascus results in a Timudid victory over the Mamluks.

1402

1405

  • 14 February. Timur dies, Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Timurid Empire.

1415

References

Bibliography

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