1096

Calendar overview 1096

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1096
Peter the Hermit organizes the People's Crusade , which is soon destroyed by the Seljuks.
The First Crusade leaves for the Holy Land.
1096 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	544/545 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1088/89
Buddhist calendar	1639/40 (southern Buddhism); 1638/39 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	63rd (64th) cycle Year of the Fire Rat丙子 ( at the beginning of the year wood pig 乙亥)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	458/459 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	474/475 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	489/490 (December 18-19)
Jewish calendar	4856/57 (September 19-20)
Coptic calendar	812/813
Malayalam calendar	271/272
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1406/07 (New Year April) Syria: 1407/08 (New Year October)
Spanish era	1134
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1152/53 (turn of the year April)

Events

April 12 : Under the leadership of Peter the Hermit , numerous peasants and petty nobility gather in Cologne under the impression of the Synod of Clermont to lead a people's crusade to the Holy Land. A popular army under Walter Sans-Avoir had already set out from France and reached Hungary on May 8th .
April to June: Persecution of Jews in Germany, especially the Gezerot-Tatnu massacre in the Rhineland as part of the People's Crusade (see Persecution of Jews at the time of the First Crusade and the Jewish Community of Speyer )
Summer: Crusaders set out for the First Holy Crusade against the Muslim Turks.
September 29th : The German and Italian contingent of the People's Crusade is destroyed or enslaved by Rum Seljuks in Xerigordon .

October 21 : Rum Seljuks destroy the rest of the people's crusade off Nicaea .

November: The first part of the Crusader army arrives in Constantinople .

Coat of arms of Vitale Michiel I.

After Vitale Falier's death , Vitale Michiel I was elected as his successor as Doge of Venice . Like his predecessor, he is currently not reacting to Urban II's call to crusade to the Holy Land.

March 12 : Knud Lavard , Jarl in South Jutland, first Duke of Schleswig († 1131 )
April 9 : Al-Muqtafi , Abbasid caliph of Baghdad († 1160 )

Al-Amir , Caliph of the Fatimids († 1130 )
Minamoto no Tameyoshi , head of the Minamoto (Japan), leader of the Hōgen rebellion against the Taira († 1156 )

January 2 : William of St Calais , Anglo-Norman clergyman and Bishop of Durham (* around 1030 )
January 11th : Adelheid II , eldest daughter of Emperor Heinrich III. and Agnes von Poitou, Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg (* 1045 )
after January 13th: Wilhelm II. , Count of Eu

April 1st : Engelbert I , Margrave of Istria, Count of Spanheim and Kraichgau, Vogt of Salzburg
May 27th : Kalonymos ben Meshullam , Jewish poet, scholar and rabbi

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