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World History Timeline - 1090
Roger Guiscard completes his conquest of Sicily and drives out the Muslim population. Muslims had occupied Sicily for about 130 years.
Ladislas I of Hungary conquers Croatia and Dalmatia, where he introduces Roman Christianity, establishes the bishopric of Zagreb, and persecutes the heathen.
Pope Urban II receives a request for aid against the threatening Seljuk Turks from Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus.
Pope Urban II calls for a crusade to take back the Holy Land from the Muslims who now occupy it. Urban's invitation receives an enthusiastic response.
Crusaders attack communities of Jews as they make their way toward the Holy Land.
Those participating in the First Crusade reach Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor Alexius Comnenus provides food and passage for the armed pilgrims.
Japan's former Emperor, Shirakawa, is so distraught over the loss of his daughter that he becomes a Buddhist priest (though he still retains tight control over political affairs).
A combined force of western and eastern European Crusaders defeat a Muslim army at Nicaea, taking the capital of the Seljuk Turks.
St. Anselm of Canterbury writes Cur Deus Homo (Why God became Man), a theology of the atonement.
The Cistercian order begins with the founding of the monastery of Citeaux by Robert of Molesmes and Stephen Harding.
After a one-month siege, Jerusalem falls into Crusader hands. Godfrey Bouillon, who is elected King and assumes the title Defender of the Holy Sepulchre, establishes the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
El Cid dies in Guernica, Spain.
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