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Institution of the order of the Knights of Jerusalem. The first Crusade to the Holy Land. - Peter the Hermit. 1097 Newcastle-on-Tyne built by Malcolm Canmore, 1098 Magnus Barefoot, King of Norway, reduces Orkney, Shetland, and the He- brides to complete subjection to his crown.

The Crusaders take Antioch.

EDGAR King of Scotland. 1099 Jerusalem taken by Godfrey of Boulogne. -The Knights of St. John instituted. Pope Pascal II. 1100 - 1102 Henry I. (Beauclerc) King of England.

Guiscard of Normandy takes the title of King of Naples. 1104 Baldwin King of Jerusalem takes Ptolemais. 1106 HENRY V. Emperor of Germany. 1107 ALEXANDER I. King of Scotland. 1108 Louis VI. (le Gros) King of France.

IIIO Pope Gelasius II. 1118 The Order of Knights Templars instituted.

JOHN (Comnenus) Emperor of the East. 1119 Pope Calixtus II.

I120 Edgar Atheling dies. 1124 DAVID I. King of Scotland. -- Pope Honorius II. 1125 LOTHARIUS II. Emperor of Germany. 1130 Pope Innocent II. 1135 Stephen King of England. 1137 Louis VII. (le Jeune) King of France, married to Eleanor of Guienne. The Pandects of the Roman law discovered at Amalphi. 1138 CONRAD III. Emperor of Germany.

A. D. 1138 The Scots, under David I., defeated by the English in the battle of the Standard. 1139 Alphonso I. King of Portugal, rescues that kingdom from the Saracens. 1140 The Canon law first introduced into England. 1141 Stephen King of England taken prisoner in the battle of Lincoln, by the troops of Matilda. 1143 -recovers his kingdom. --- Pope Cælestinus II.

MANUEL (Comnenus) Emperor of the East. 1144 Pope Lucius II. 1145 Pope Eugene III. 1147 The Second Crusade, excited by St. Bernard. 1150 The study of the Civil Law revived at Bologna by Wernerus. 1151 The Cannon Law is collected by Gratian, a Monk of Bologna. 1152 FREDERICK I. (Barbarossa) Emperor of Germany. 1153 MALCOLM IV. King of Scotland. -- -- Pope Anastasius IV.

Treaty of Winchester-Compromise between King Stephen and Prince Henry. 1154 Henry II. (Plantagenet) King of England. -- Pope Adrian IV.

The parties of the Guelphs and Ghibellines disturb Italy. 1157 The Bank of Venice instituted. 1158 Interview between Henry II. and Malcolm IV. at Carlisle. 1159 Pope Alexander III. 1160 The Albigenses maintain heretical doctrines. 1164 Institution of the order of Teutonic Knights in Germany. Becket condemned by the Council of Clarendon. 1165 WILLIAM (the Lion) King of Scotland. 1169 Conquest of Egypt by the Turks. 1171 Becket murdered at Canterbury. 1172 Conquest of Ireland by Henry II. 1176 Dispensing of Justice by Circuits first begun in England. 1180 Philip Augustus King of France. -- ALEXIS II. (Comnenus) Emperor of the East. 1181 Pope Lucius III. -- Law of England digested by Glanville. 1183 ANDRONICUS (Comnenus) Emperor of the East. 1185 Pope Urban III.

ISAAC ANGELUS Emperor of the East. 1187 Pope Gregory VIII.

The city of Jerusalem taken by Saladin. 1188 Pope Clement III.