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Pope Damasus I died.
1098
Crusaders capture the city of M'arrat-an-Numan, a small city east of Antioch. According to reports, Crusaders are observed eating the flesh of both adults and children; as a consequence, the Franks would be labeled "cannibals" by Turkish historians.
1100
Baldwin of Boulogne (also Baldwin of Edessa) is crowned King of Jerusalem (Baldwin I). The position is grander in name than in practice. The "kingdom" is divided into four feudal principalities over which Baldwin has limited control. His power is further checked by an ecclesiastical hierarchy which is subject only to the pope in Rome. Finally, several port cities are controlled by Italian city-states like Venice and Genoa as the price for the naval aid and sea trade upon which the Latin Kingdom depends for survival. Read More About the Crusades: What Were the Crusades? | Timelines of the Crusades
1475
Pope Leo X was born. Leo would be pope when Martin Luther initiated the Protestant Reformation.
1518
Ulrich Zwingli was elected the "People's Preacher" in Zurich, Switzerland.
1880
Josef Breuer initiated treatment of 21-year-old "Anna O." Breuer's treatment of Anna was an early use of the psychoanalytic method, later refined and elaborated by Breuer's partner, Sigmund Freud.
1950
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that witnesses before grand juries have the right under the 5th Amendment not to reveal any communist affiliations.
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