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| 1154 |
| | The inhabitants of Damascus surrender their city to Nur ed-Din, helping him greatly in his campaign against the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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| 1187 |
| | Saladin takes Jerusalem and treats the Christian inhabitants with a consideration unusual for the time | |
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| 1191 |
| | The Teutonic Knights are founded to run a hospital in Acre, in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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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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| 1228 |
| | Frederick II, leader of the sixth crusade, briefly recovers Jerusalem for the Christians by negotiating with the Muslims | |
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| 1581 |
| | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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| 1804 |
| | William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton | |
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| 1916 |
| | Hubert Parry sets profoundly evocative verses by William Blake and gives his composition the title Jerusalem | |
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| 1917 December 9 |
| | The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders | |
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| 1946 |
| | Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people | |
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