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Year Day/Month Title Eadred (946 - 959) 948  Eadred destroys the monastery at Ripon.   Aethelred the Unready (978 - 1016) 994 Winter  Trygvasson converted to Christianity   1011  The Vikings murder Aelfheah   Edward the Confessor (1042 - 1066) 1056  Hereford cathedral burnt   William the Conqueror (1066 - 1087) 1070  Malcolm raids Northern England Jun  Hereward the Wake sacks Peterborough Abbey   1080  Ripon monastery destroyed by Normans   1081  William tours south Wales   William Rufus (1087 - 1100) 1095 Mar  The Council of Piacenza Nov 27  The Council of Clermont   1096 Qtr 1  Peter the Hermit's (or People's) Crusade Jul  Peter reaches Byzantium   Henry I (1100 - 1135) 1113  Knights Hospitallers Recognised   Stephen (1135 - 1154) 1138  Calder Abbey attacked by the Scots   1145 Dec 1  First formal Bull of crusade   1146 Mar 31  Sermon at V?zelay Dec 25  Diet of Spires   1147 May  The start of the Second Crusade Jun  Louis VII joins the Crusade   Henry II (1154 - 1189) 1155  Plan for the conquest of Ireland approved   1170 Dec 29  Thomas Becket is murdered   1187 Jul 3  Army of Jerusalem defeated Oct 2  Jerusalem falls to the Muslims Nov  Richard takes the Cross. The Crusade   Richard I (1189 - 1199) 1189  Teutonic Knights established   John (1199 - 1216) 1199 Feb  Teutonic Knights   1202  The Fourth Crusade   Henry III (1216 - 1272) 1219  The Fifth Crusade (1219-21)   1228  The Sixth Crusade (1228-9)   1239  Theobald of Champagne's Crusade   1244 Aug  Jerusalem falls.   1248  The Seventh Crusade (1248-54)   1261 Qtr 1  Absolved from the Provisions of Oxford   1268 Jun  Edward take the cross   1270 Jul  Prince Edward leaves for the Holy Land Jul 20  The Eighth Crusade   Edward III (1327 - 1377) 1337 Qtr 2  Cardinals sent to Europe   1348  Founding of the Order of the Garter   Henry IV (1399 - 1413) 1405 Apr  Scrope's revolt May  Scrope executed   Henry V (1413 - 1422) 1414 Jan 9  Lollards arrested   Edward VI (1547 - 1553) 1547 Jul  Capture of the castle at St. Andrews   Other 1639 Jun 18  Treaty of Berwick

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