Fourth Crusade Timeline

Pope Innocent III calls for the Fourth Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim rule.

Marquis Boniface of Montferrat is selected to lead the Fourth Crusade.

The Fourth Crusade is formed to recapture Jerusalem for Christendom. Instead, the Crusaders attack Constantinople.

The Fourth Crusade fleet leaves Venice.

The armies of the Fourth Crusade capture Christian Zara on the Dalmatian coast.

A small force of Crusader knights arrives in the Middle East during the Fourth Crusade.

The army of the Fourth Crusade arrives at Constantinople.

Constantinople is sacked by the Fourth Crusaders.

Count Baldwin of Flanders is made the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople.