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| 1145 |
| | | A bishop in the crusader territories of the Middle East has news of a fabulously wealthy Christian king, Prester John | |
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| 1147 |
| | | Alfonso I takes Lisbon from the Muslims, with the unexpected help of some passing English crusaders | |
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| 1147 |
| | | The second crusade is led east by two kings, Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany | |
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| 1148 |
| | | By the time Louis VII and Conrad III reach the Holy Land they have lost more than half their joint armies to Muslim attacks | |
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| 1148 |
| | | Louis VII and Conrad III do grave harm to the Latin Kingdom by a feeble attack that merely alienates the previously friendly city of Damascus | |
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| 1187 |
| | | Saladin destroys the Christian army of the Latin kingdom in a battle below the Horns of Hattin | |
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| 1187 |
| | | Saladin captures various Crusader fortresses and walled cities, including Acre | |
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| 1187 |
| | | Saladin takes Jerusalem and treats the Christian inhabitants with a consideration unusual for the time | |
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| 1190 |
| | | A year after succeeding to the throne of England, Richard I sets off east as one of the leaders of the third crusade | |
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| 1190 |
| | | The third crusade suffers an early disaster when its first leader, the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, is drowned crossing the Calycadnus river | |
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