1. 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.

2. This was the first, promoted by Pope Urban II in 1095, as recorded 50 years later by a Genoese crusader.

3. Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.

4. These conflicts started in 1095 at the urgings of Pope Urban II, leader of the Western Christian Church centered in Rome.

5. 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.