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| 1204 |
| | | The crusaders of the fourth crusade besiege, take and destroy the Christian city of Constantinople | |
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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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| 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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| 1212 |
| | | Participants in the Children's Crusade suffer disaster after the waters of the Mediterranean fail to part for them | |
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| 1219 |
| | | St Francis of Assisi joins a crusading army in Egypt and attempts to convert the sultan Melek-el-Kamel and his followers to Christianity | |
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| 1228 |
| | | Frederick II, leader of the sixth crusade, briefly recovers Jerusalem for the Christians by negotiating with the Muslims | |
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| 1295 |
| | | The new Mameluke dynasty in Egypt begins a systematic campaign to drive the Crusaders out of the Middle East | |
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| 1291 |
| | | In the space of a few months the Muslims take the last four crusader castles, Tyre, Sidon, Acre and finally Beirut | |
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| 1303 |
| | | The Knights Templars withdraw from the island of Arwad, the last foothold of the crusaders in the Middle East | |
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| 1581 |
| | | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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