Category: 1100s

• The City of Jerusalem, Under Balian of Ibelin, a Christian Crusader, Surrendered to Saladin’s Army After 88 years of Christian Control. October 2, 1187.

  Image: Saladin (Public Domain) On this day in history, October 2, 1187, the City of Jerusalem, under Balian of Ibelin, a Christian crusader, surrendered to Saladin’s army after 88 years of Christian control. Despite planning to kill all Christians in Jerusalem as revenge for the slaughter of Muslims in 1099, Saladin agreed to let them…

  October 2, 2023

  1100s, Christians, Crusades, History Daily, Saladin

  1100s, Christians, Crusades, Saladin

• History Daily: September 3

  CORONATION OF KING RICHARD THE LIONHEART Image: Richard I, King of England. (Wikimedia Commons.) SEPTEMBER 3, 1189 – King Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation – Richard ordered the perpetrators to be executed. FRENCH CONSTITUTION PASSED Image: Georges Danton (Wikimedia Commons.) SEPTEMBER 3, 1791 –  French Revolution:…

  September 3, 2023

  1100s, 1700s, 1800s, Abolition, Crusades, Frederick Douglass, French Revolution, Georges Danton, History Daily, King Richard the Lionheart, orges Danton

  1100s, 1700s, 1800s, Abolition, Crusades, event & history, Frederick Douglass, French Revolution, Georges Danton, History Daily, King Richard the Lionheart

• History Daily:August 20

  RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY LEON TROTSKY IS MORTALLY INJURED IN MEXICO CITY ATTACK Image: Leon Trotsky (Wikimedia Commons.) Born in Ukraine to Russian-Jewish parents in 1879, Trotsky became a Marxist as a teenager and later left the University of Odessa to help organize the subversive South Russian Workers Union. In 1898, he was arrested for radical activities…

  August 20, 2023

  1100s, 1900s, 1940s, event & history, Leon Trotsky, Massacre of Ayyadieh, Richard the Lionhearted, the Great White Fleet, Third Crusade

  1100s, 1900s, 1940s, event & history, History Daily, Leon Trotsky, Massacre of Ayyadieh, the Great White Fleet, The Third Crusade