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Year 1099 (MXCIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Video 1099
Events
By area
Asia
- Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade:
- January 13 - Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
- June 7 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- July 8 - 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march around Jerusalem.
- July 15 - Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem at the end of this difficult siege.
- July 22 - The Kingdom of Jerusalem is founded in the Middle East.
- August 12 - Battle of Ascalon: The Crusaders defeat the Fatimids.
By topic
Religion
- August 13 - Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II, as the 160th pope.
Maps 1099
Births
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, Sicilian Muslim cartographer, Egyptologist (d. 1165)
- Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester (d. 1153)
- William X, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1137)
- Approximate date - Henry of Blois, Norman bishop of Winchester (d. 1171)
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Deaths
- April 14 - Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht (b. before 1040)
- April 20 - Peter Bartholomew, French soldier, mystic (b. 1061)
- June 10 - El Cid, Castilian nobleman, military leader (b. 1043)
- July 29 - Pope Urban II (b. 1035)
- December 3 - Saint Osmund of Salisbury (b. 1065)
- Ermengarde de Carcassonne, Sovereign vicomtesse of Carcassonne
- King Donald III of Scotland (b. before 1040)
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References
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