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Aug 1198Pope Innocent III calls for the Fourth Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim rule.
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Aug 1201Marquis Boniface of Montferrat is selected to lead the Fourth Crusade.
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1202 - 1204The Fourth Crusade is formed to recapture Jerusalem for Christendom. Instead, the Crusaders attack Constantinople.
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Oct 1202The Fourth Crusade fleet leaves Venice.
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24 Nov 1202The armies of the Fourth Crusade capture Christian Zara on the Dalmatian coast.
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May 1203A small force of Crusader knights arrives in the Middle East during the Fourth Crusade.
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24 Jun 1203The army of the Fourth Crusade arrives at Constantinople.
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12 Apr 1204Constantinople is sacked by the Fourth Crusaders.
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9 May 1204Count Baldwin of Flanders is made the first Latin Emperor of Constantinople.