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| c. 1200 |
| | | In the cathedral on Torcello, and in St Mark's, Venetian mosaics are a culmination in the west of the Byzantine tradition | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | Flemish towns begin to acquire municipal independence, as communes, following the earlier Italian trend | |
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| 1202 |
| | | The fleet of the fourth crusade departs from Venice - only to be diverted from its purposes by Venetian guile | |
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| 1204 |
| | | Venice takes the useful islands of Corfu and Crete as part of the spoils of the fourth crusade | |
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| 1204 |
| | | A Latin empire is set up in Constantinople on the same basis as the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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| c. 1205 |
| | | Many of the treasures adorning the church of San Marco in Venice are loot taken from Constantinople during the fourth crusade | |
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| 1210 |
| | | St Francis and eleven companions tell Innocent III of their wish for a life of holy poverty in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1212 |
| | | Participants in the Children's Crusade suffer disaster after the waters of the Mediterranean fail to part for them | |
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| 1215 |
| | | St Dominic and his companions tell Innocent III of their wish to teach and preach in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1216 |
| | | The Dominicans are formally established by Pope Honorius III as Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum, the Order of the Friars Preachers | |
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