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| 845 |
| | | On the orders of the T'ang emperor, 4000 monasteries are destroyed in China and 250,000 monks and nuns forced into secular life | |
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| 1096 |
| | | The German crusade begins with a massacre of Jews in many of the region's cities | |
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| 1182 |
| | | Resentment of western merchants results in a massacre of Roman Catholics by fellow Christians in Constantinople | |
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| 1208 |
| | | The murder of the pope's legate to Toulouse provokes the Albigensian crusade, which aims to wipe out the Catharist heresy | |
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| 1233 |
| | | Gregory IX sends Dominican friars to root out the remains of the Catharist heresy in France, thus launching the Inquisition | |
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| 1244 |
| | | The siege of the Catharist stronghold of Montségur ends when 200 heretics are herded into a wooden stockade and are burnt | |
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| 1290 |
| | | The Jews in England are driven out of the country, soon to be followed by those in France | |
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| 1302 |
| | | Dante, a member of the White faction in Florence, is sentenced to death by the Blacks - and never returns to his native city | |
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| 1310 |
| | | Fifty-four Knights Templars are burned at the stake, during the campaign of the French king to destroy the order | |
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| 1348 |
| | | Massacres of Jews, rumoured to have caused the Black Death by poisoning wells, begin in southern France and spread through much of Europe | |
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