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– Christian Crusades –
The First Crusade
1095 AD to 1099 AD
1095 AD to 1099 AD – The Siege of Jerusalem by the First Crusade, June 7 to July 15, 1099.
The climax of the First Crusade, the successful siege saw the Christian Crusaders take Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate and laid the foundations for the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Siege Of Jerusalem (1099)
The Fatimid Caliphate
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The Holy Inquisition In Europe
1100 AD
Heresy In The Catholic Church
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The Second Crusade
1145 AD to 1150 AD
The Second Crusade was the second major crusade launched from Europe.
The crusade in the East was a failure for the crusaders and a great victory for the Muslims.
It would ultimately have a key influence on the fall of Jerusalem and give rise to the Third Crusade at the end of the 12th century.
The Second Crusade
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The 3rd & 4th Crusades
1189 AD to 1212 AD
1189 AD to 1192 AD – The Battle of Jaffa. One of a series of campaigns between the army of Sultan Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb) and the Crusader forces led by King Richard I of England (known as Richard the Lionheart).
It was the final battle of the Third Crusade, after which Saladin and King Richard were able to negotiate a truce. Although the Crusaders did not regain possession of Jerusalem, Christian pilgrims were permitted entry into the city, and the Crusaders were able to retain control of a sizable strip of land stretching from Beirut to Jaffa.
The Third Crusade (1189–1192)
The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204)
The Fifth Crusade (1217–1221)
The Sixth Crusade (1228–1229)
The Seventh Crusade (1248–1254)
The Eighth Crusade (1270)
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Genghis Khan
The Feared Conqueror of Mongol Empire
1206 AD to 1368 AD
1206 AD to 1368 AD – The Mongol Empire. Founded by Genghis Khan and existed during the 13th and 14th centuries.
It was the largest contiguous land empire in history. Originating in the steppes of Central Asia, the Mongol Empire eventually stretched from Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to the Sea of Japan, extending northwards into Siberia, eastwards and southwards into the Indian subcontinent, Indochina and the Iranian Plateau; and westwards as far as the Levant and the Carpathian Mountains.
The Mongol Empire
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Fall of Baghdad
(Mongol Invasion)
1215 AD to 1262 AD
1223 AD to 1277 AD. — Baibars was one of the commanders of the Egyptian forces that inflicted a defeat on the Christian Crusade of King Louis IX of France.
He led the vanguard of the Egyptian army at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260, which marked the first substantial defeat of the Mongol army and is considered a turning point in history.
The reign of Baibars marked the start of an age of Mamluk dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean and solidified the durability of their military system.
He managed to pave the way for the end of the Crusader presence in the Levant and reinforced the union of Egypt and Syria as the region’s pre-eminent Muslim state, able to fend off threats from both Crusaders and Mongols, and even managed to subdue the kingdom of Makuria, which was famous for being unconquerable by previous Muslim empire invasion attempts.
As Sultan, Baibars also engaged in a combination of diplomacy and military action, allowing the Mamluks of Egypt to greatly expand their empire.
Baibars
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Siege Of Baghdad
Battle At Ain Jalut
1260 AD
1260 AD — The Battle of Ain Jalut took place in September 1260 between Muslim Mamluks and the Mongols.
It took place in South Eastern Galilee, in the Jezreel Valley, in the vicinity of Nazareth, not far from the site of Zirin.
The battle shifted in favor of the Mamluks, who had both the geographic and psychological advantage, and eventually some of the Mongols were forced to retreat.
The Mongol leader Kitbuqa and almost the whole Mongol army that had remained in the region perished.
The Battle Of Ain Jalut
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The Last Crusade
(Edward Longshanks vs Baibars)
1260 AD to 1298 AD
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Battle of Elbistan
(Mamluk Baibars vs Mongol Ilkhanate)
1277 AD to 1299 AD
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From the 1300s to the 1800s we enter into the Medieval history of Christianity, the Late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment.
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The Trial Of The Knights Templar
1307 AD to 1314 AD
Jacques De Molay – Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar –
Burnt at the stake on the Ile des Javiaux in the Seine
March 18, 1314
Pope Clement V – died on April 20, 1314.
According to one account, while his body was lying in state, a thunderstorm arose during the night and lightning struck the church where his body lay, setting it on fire. The fire was so intense that by the time it was extinguished, the Pope’s body had been all but destroyed.
Philip IV’s – The French Kings rule signaled the decline of the papacy’s power
from its near complete authority.
He suffered a cerebral stroke during a hunt and died a few weeks later
on November 29, 1314.
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The Dark History Of The Catholic Inquisition
Ep 1. Root Out Heretics – 1308 AD
Ep 2. The Tears of Spain – 1478 AD
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The Black Death or Beuplonic Plague
1347 AD to 1351 AD
The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe.
The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe’s population. In total, the plague may have reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million to 350–375 million in the 14th century.
It took 200 years for the world population to recover to its previous level. The plague recurred as outbreaks in Europe until the 19th century.
The disease may have traveled along the Silk Road with Mongol armies and traders or it could have come via ship.
By the end of 1346, reports of plague had reached the seaports of Europe: “India was depopulated, Tartary, Mesopotamia, Syria, Armenia were covered with dead bodies”
The Black Death
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The 100 Years War
Between England and France
1337 AD to 1453 AD
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Tamerlane And History Of The Timurid Empire
1370 AD To 1507 AD
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Battle Of Ankara
Ottoman vs Timurid War
1402 AD
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Fall Of Constantinople
Ottoman vs Constantine XI
1444 AD To 1453 AD
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The Wars Of Roses
English Civil War
1455 AD To 1487 AD
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The Italian Wars
1494 AD To 1525 AD
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Ottoman Wars
Siege Of Vienna #1
1526 AD To 1529 AD
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Jamestown Established As The First English Settlement In North America
May 14, 1607
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The 30 Years War
1618 AD To 1648 AD
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1620 AD – Landing Of The Pilgrims In The New World Of The Americas.
The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were the first English settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist Puritans who had fled the volatile political environment in England for the relative calm and tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands.
They held Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but, unlike other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations needed to be separated from the English State Church.
They were also concerned that they might lose their cultural identity if they remained in the Netherlands, so they arranged with investors to establish a new colony in America.
The colony was established in 1620 and became the second successful English settlement in America, following the founding of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.
The Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
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The Battle Of Vienna #2
Ottoman Empire vs Europe
September 11-12, 1683 AD
The Battle Of Vienna #2
Poland Saves Europe From Islam
September 11-12, 1683 AD
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The Seven Years’ War
1756 AD To 1763 AD
A global conflict, “a struggle for global primacy between Britain and France,” which also had a major impact on the Spanish Empire.
Britain, France, and Spain fought both in Europe and overseas with land-based armies and naval forces, while Prussia sought territorial expansion in Europe and consolidation of its power.
Seven Years War
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1775 AD – The American Revolution
The Conflict Ignites
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783.
The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America, the first modern constitutional liberal democracy.
1776 AD – The Birth of the United States of America.
British America 1585-1783
1776 – The United States Declaration of Independence.
United States Declaration Of Independence
1787 – United States Constitution.
United States Constitution
1791 – United States Bill of Rights.
United States Bill Of Rights
1798 – House of Representatives and Naturalization Act
Naturalization Act Of 1798
The American Revolution
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Napoleon
Birth Of An Emperor
1768 AD to 1804 AD
1798 AD – February 10, the Beast (Papacy) also received a deadly wound.
Now, just like the Islamic Empire and Caliphate could be a candidate for the “Beast” of Revelation, it is also believed that the Papacy could be a candidate for the “Beast” as it also received a deadly wound which lasted for 131 years.
French Republican troops under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy, defeated the papal troops and occupied Ancona and Loreto.
Pope Pius VI sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on February 19, 1797; but on December 28 of that year, in a riot blamed by Papal forces on Italian and French revolutionaries, the popular brigadier-general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot, who had gone to Rome with Joseph Bonaparte as part of the French embassy, was killed and a new pretext was furnished for invasion.
General Berthier marched to Rome, entered it unopposed on February 10, 1798, and, proclaiming a Roman Republic, demanded of the Pope the renunciation of his temporal power.
Upon his refusal he was taken prisoner, and on February 20 was escorted from the Vatican to Siena, and thence to the Certosa near Florence.
The French declaration of war against Tuscany led to his removal (he was escorted by the Spaniard Pedro Gómez Labrador, Marquis of Labrador) by way of Parma, Piacenza, Turin and Grenoble to the citadel of Valence, the chief town of Drôme where he died six weeks after his arrival, on August 29, 1799, having then reigned longer than any Pope.
Napoleon And The Catholic Church — Attack On Pius VI
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So here we have a Prophetic timeline:
From Emperor Justinian in 538 AD to 1798 AD is a time span of 1,260 years. This is the prophetic length of time that the Papacy was in power.
The Papacy was not restored until the Lateran Pacts of 1929 which established Vatican City as an independent State, restoring the civil sovereignty of the Pope as a monarch.
As the reader, it’s up to you to determine which one of these candidates qualifies to be the “BEAST” of Revelation in the last days. The Islamic Empire and Caliphate or the Papacy of Rome?
Roman Republic (1798-1799 – 18th Century) — Annexation Of Rome
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Napoleon
The Conquest Of Europe
1805 AD to 1812 AD
Napoleon
The Decline
1812 AD to 1821 AD
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World War One
1914 AD to 1918 AD
World War I started with Germany invading Austria, and was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history.
It was fought between two coalitions, the Allies and the Central Powers.
The first decade of the 20th century saw increasing diplomatic tension between the European great powers. This reached a breaking point on 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Austria-Hungary held Serbia responsible, and declared war on 28 July. Russia came to Serbia’s defence, and by 4 August, defensive alliances had drawn in Germany, France and Britain, with the Ottoman Empire joining the war in November.
Fighting took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease.
Millions more died as a result of genocide, while the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war.
The First World War lasted 4 years and ultimately brought an end to the Ottoman Empire.
World War I
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1918 Spanish Flu – Swine Flu Pandemic
Deadly Plague Of 1918 AD to 1920 AD
This was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic lasting from January 1918 to December 1920.
It infected 500 million people, about a quarter of the world’s population at the time.
The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
The Spanish Flu
WE HEARD THE BELLS:
The Influenza Of 1918 AD
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The Fall Of The Ottoman Empire
1922 / 1924 AD
It was the last Sunni Islamic Caliphate of the late medieval and the early modern era. From 1517 to 1924 the Ottoman Caliphate was under the Ottoman dynasty of the Ottoman Empire and was abolished on 3 March, 1924.
The Abolition of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of Turkey took place on November 1, 1922.
The Ottoman Caliphate
Abolition Of The Ottoman Sultanate
Israel Before The State
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The Great Depression
1929 AD To 1939 AD
1929 AD – The Great Depression. A severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s.
It started in the United States after a major fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929.
The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s.
The Great Depression
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Establishment Of Papal State Of Rome. “The Deadly Wound Was Healed”.
The Lateran Pacts Of February 11, 1929 AD.
The Lateran Pacts of February 11, 1929 contained three sections.
1. The Treaty of Conciliation (27 articles) which established Vatican City as an independent state, restoring the civil sovereignty of the Pope as a monarch.
2. The Financial Convention annexed to the treaty (3 articles) which compensated the Holy See for loss of the papal states.
3. The Concordat (45 articles), which dealt with the Roman Catholic Church’s ecclesiastical relations with the Italian State.
The Lateran Treaty
The Papal States
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World War Two
1939 AD To 1945 AD
Sept 1, 1939, World War II started with Germany invading Poland 21 years after the First World War.
Great Britian delcared war on Germany on September 17, 1939.
The Second World War lasted 6 years with 6 Million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
World War II
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Israel Declaration Of Independence And The Rebirth Of The State Of Israel
May 14, 1948 AD
Prophecy was fulfilled on May 14, 1948 when the State of Israel was reborn and the return of the Jews to their homeland (Israel has now come full circle since Jesus walked in the Holy Land)
Ezekiel 34:11-16 says…
11. For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
14. I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
15. I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.
16. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
1948 In Israel
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The Prophetic timeline here could be another important one.
From the year of the construction of the Dome of the Rock in 688 AD to 1948 AD is exactly 1,260 years apart.
It is the exact amount of years from when the start of the construction upon the Temple Mount to the return of the Jews back into their homeland.
Everything about Jesus and the Holy Bible is centered around Israel and Jerusalem and the last days will also be centered around Israel and Jerusalem. It would stand to reason that this timeline could be fairly significant.
If the Dome of the Rock is the abomination of desolation then 691/2 AD (date of completion) could be the start of the Great Tribulation that Jesus refers to in Matthew 25:21.
21. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
The Bible does not tell us how long the Great Tribulation would last so we have to be careful not to inject false teachings into this area of study.
We know that the Bible often mentions 3 1/2 years and 1,260 years, so if the great tribulation timeline was relevant then the Lord would have given us this kind of date, but he didn’t.
However, The Bible does give us a beginning and an end timeline.
Matthew 24:21-22 says…
21. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (Jews & Christians) those days shall be shortened.”
This was the verse right after “the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel”. Hence, the beginning of the Great Tribulation period.
The end of the great tribulation verse is still in Matthew 24:29 just before the sun turns dark, it says…
29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:…”
So according to these verses, the next prophetic event that should occur is the sun, moon and star events bringing an end to the great tribulation and hopefully the return of Jesus Christ and the rapture of the Christian Church.
Let’s continue on…
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The Six Day War – 1967 AD.
In 1967, the Third Arab–Israeli War took place between 5 and 10 June with Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria.
Egypt and Jordan agreed to a ceasefire on 8 June, and Syria agreed on 9 June; a ceasefire was signed with Israel on 11 June.
In the aftermath of the war, Israel had crippled the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian militaries, having killed over 20,000 troops while only losing fewer than 1,000 of its own.
The Israeli success was the result of a well-prepared and enacted strategy, the poor leadership of the Arab states, and their poor military leadership and strategy.
Israel seized the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria.
The Six Day War
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The Cold War
1947 AD To 1991 AD
The Cold War
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The Gulf War
1990 AD to 1991 AD
(2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), code named Operation Desert Shield.
(2 August 1990 – 17 January 1991) for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm.
(17 January 1991 – 28 February 1991) in its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes.
The war is also known under other names, such as the Persian Gulf War, First Gulf War, Gulf War I, Kuwait War, First Iraq War or Iraq War
The Gulf War
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