Chronology :
The Middle East, AD 10711300
1071 - Saljuqs defeat Byzantines at Manzikert
1092 - Death of Great Saljuq Sultan Malik Shah
1097 - First Crusade; Crusaders defeat Saljuqs of Rum at Dorylaeum
1098 - Crusaders capture Antioch; Fatimids seize Jerusalem io99
1099 - 1105 - Crusaders capture Jerusalem
1102 - Saljuq civil war
1109 - Fatimids defeat Crusaders at Ramlah
1115-6 - Crusaders capture Tripoli
1119 - Crusaders occupy Transjordan
1122 - Atabeg force defeats Crusaders at 'Field of Blood'
1127 - Abbasid Caliph recruits own army for first time in many years Zangi made governor of Mosul
1138 - Probable birth of Saladin
1144 - Zangi captures Crusader-held Edessa
1146 - Assassination of Zangi
1147 - German Crusade defeated by Saljuqs of Rum
1148 - Second Crusade defeated outside Damascus
1153 - Crusaders capture Asqalan, last Fatimid stronghold in Palestine
1154 - Nur al Din seizes Damascus
1157 - Death of Sinjar, last effective Great Saljuq Sultan
1161 - Saljuqs of Rum acknowledge Byzantine suzerainty
1163-8 - Crusaders of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invade Egypt three times
1169 - Saladin seizes Egypt
1174 - Death or NW' al Din: Saladin seizes Damascus
1176 - Saljuqs of Rum defeat Byzantines at Myriokephalon
1182-3 - Renaud de Chātillon ravages Red Sea coasts
1183 - Saladin seizes Aleppo
1187 - Saladin defeats Crusader States at Hattin; captures Jerusalem but fails to take Tyre
I189-91 - Siege and capture of Acre by Third Crusade
1191 - Crusaders defeat Saladin at Arsuf
1192 - Richard the Lionheart leaves Palestine
1193 - Death of Saladin
1194 - Khwarazmshah defeats last Saljuq Sultan of Iran
1204 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople (Istanbul)
1218-21 - Fifth Crusade invades Egypt; death of Ayyubid Sultan al Adil; defeat of Fifth Crusade
1220-22 - Mongols invade eastern Islam
1228-9 - Emperor Frederick II reaches Palestine, signs treaty with Ayyubid Sultan al Kamil
1238 - Fragmentation of Ayyubid Empire
1243 - Saljuqs of Rum defeated by Mongols
1245 - Al Salih reunites Ayyubid Empire
1249-50 - St Louis Iii of France invades Egypt ; death of al Salih; Mamluk revolution in Egypt; surrender of Louis IX
I258 - Mongols sack Baghdad
126o - Mongols occupy Syria, are defeated by Mamluks at Ayn Jalut
1261 - Byzantines recapture Constantinople (Istanbul)
1268 - Mamluks capture Jaffa and Antioch
1289 - Mamluks destroy Tripoli
1291 - Mamluks capture Acre and all other Crusader possessions on Syrian-Palestinian mainland | 
