History
1096
General
Population: 299 Million*
- Religion: First Crusade to 1099 – participants include Godfrey of Bouillon and Tancred the nephew of Robert Guiscard – against Saracen Muslims of Palestine
- Deaths: Count Werner I (First Hapsburg)
Asia
Europe
- Austria: Count Werner I dies (First Hapsburg)
- England: Nave of Norwich cathedral started
- France: French Jews begin to be killed in Crusade
- German States: Jews massacred in German cities
- Spain: Pope Urban II offers privileges to Crusaders fighting Spanish Muslims
Middle East
- First Crusade begins - French and Normans take Constantinople and Palestine defeating Turks and Muslims