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Events

• Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade:
• July 8 - 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.
• July 15 - Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
• August 12- the crusaders defeat the Fatimids at the Battle of Ascalon.

Births

Deaths

• July 29 - Pope Urban II
• El Cid - (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar)
• Peter Bartholomew - a mystic who participated in the First Crusade

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