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CHRONOLOGY.

A. M. A. D.

duced many cities of Thrace and Greece to hisswav.

5189 1185 Urban III. succeeds Lucius III, in the popedom.

Isaac us Angelus succeeds Andronicus in the Greekempire.

5190 1186 The kingdom of Jerusalem ended by Saladin’s taking

Jerusalem from the Latins.

5191 1187 Tlie city of Antioch is given up to Saladin by the

patriarch for a great sum of money.

Gregory VIII. succeeds Urban III. in the popedom;and 57 days after Gregory YI11. is succeeded byClement III.

5192 1188 About this time the Venetians purchase the island of

Crete, or Candy, of one Boniface.

5193 1189 Richard I. sirnamed Cteur do Lion, succeeds his fa-

ther Henry II. in the kingdrfm of England.

The kings of England and France go on a croisade tothe Iloiy Land, in conjunction with Frederic,emperor of Germany, William, king of Sicily,Oddo, duke of Burgoyne, and others.

5195 H91 The English king defeats the Cyprians, and takes their

king prisoner; he afterwards takes the city of Joppa,and routs the 'Lurks in several battles. ,Celestine III. succeeds Clement III. in the popedom.

5196 1192 An impostor sets up to be the son of the late Greek

emperor Manuel, and being supported by theSultan of Iconium, took all the cities of theMeander; but a priest taking the opportunity ofhis being drunk, stabbed and killed him.

Richard I. king of England taken prisoner nearVienna, on his return home, by Leopold, duke ofAustria, Dec. 20.

5197 1193 The Scythians break into the Greek empire, and de-

feat the Greeks in several battles.

5198 1194 The British king is ransomed for 100,0001. and set at

liberty at Mentz.

5199 1195 Alexius Angelus succeeds his deposed brother Isaac

Angelus in the Greek empire. In this reign theScythians and Turks greatly harrass the empire.

5202 1198 Innocent III. succeeds Celestine III. in the popedom.

This pope first compelled men to auricular con-fession ; and had great strife with Philip, emperorof Germany, whom he excommunicated; uponwhich the empire of Germany was dreadfully har-rassed with civil wars.

5203 1199 John succeeds his brother Richard in the kingdom of

England.

5207 1203 Isaac Angelus restored to his throne by his brotherAlexius.

520S 1204 The Greek emperor Isaac dies, and is succeeded by

Alexius Mursiphilus, the usurper, who paved hisway to the throne by murdering the late empe-ror’s brother.

The Latin princes come and besiege Constantinople ;which they take by storm, and murder all theymeet with. This great revolution happened 874years after the removal of the imperial scat fromRome to Constantinople.

Baldw in, earl of Flanders, is elected the first Latinemperor at Constantinople.

The seat of the Greek empire being removed, by theLatin conquests, front Constantinople to Nice inBythinia, Theodoras Lascaris is the first Greekemperor here, and reigns 18 years.

Normandy conquered and reunited to France.Variance begins between king John and the pope, onaccount of Stephen Langton, whom the pope hadcreated archbishop of Canterbury.

The court of Inquisition instituted.

•5vl0 1206 The pope interdicted king John of England and his

whole dominions, because he would not admit Ste-phen Langton to the archbishopric of Canterbury.Henry, brother of Baldwin, the second Latin em-peror at Constantinople.

A.M.A. D.

5210 1206 A reconciliation takes place between the pope and

Philip, emperor of Germany.

5214 1210 Otho IV. emperor of Germany, invading certain

cities, winch pope Innocent affirmed to belong tothe church ot Rome, he was by him excommu-nicated, and deprived of all imperial authority,the pope causing the electors to choose Frederic,king of Sicily, and nephew to Frederic Barba-rossa, for their emperor. Frederic was elected em-peror in A. D. 1212.

5217 1213 King John of England surrenders his crown to Ran-

dolph, the pope’s legale, May 25; and is ab-solved from all Itis sins June20, following.

5219 1215 King John forced by his barons tosign Magna Charts-,

June 9.

5220 1216 Ilenrv III. succeeds his father John in the kingdom

of England.

Petrus Anlinodorensis, the third Latin emperor atConstantinople, reigned six months, and was suc-ceeded by his son Robert.

5221 1217 Ilonorius III. succeeds Innocent III. in the pope-

dom.

5226 1222 Theodoras Lascaris, Greek emperor at Nice, dies,

and is succeeded by his son-in-law John Ducas,sirnamed Yataces.

The Grey Friers of the order of Francis first ap-peared in England.

5231 1227 The Tartars under Gingis-khan over-run the Turkish

dominions in Asia.

Gregory IX. succeeds Ilonorius III. in the pope-dom.

Baldwin II. succeeds Robert in the Latin empire inthe east, and reigned 34 years.

Frederic, emperor of Germany, excommunicated bythe pope.

Avignon taken and spoiled by Louis, the French king;

, this city being interdicted by the pope for the

space ot seven years, because of the heresies (asthey were termed) of the Albigenses.

5235 1231 Frederic, the emperor, in order to be reconciled to

pope Gregory, is obliged, by way of penance, topay him 120,000 ounces of gold ; upon the re-ceipt of which the Roman bishop again proclaimshim emperor of Germany and king of Sicily.

5237 1233 The inquisition trusted to the Dominicans.

5239 1235 John Ducas, the Greek emperor, and John Azen,

, king of Bulgaria, besiege Constantinople ; but the

Latin army sallying out very vigorously, put theirw hole force to Right, consisting of 100,000 men,killed a great number, forced them to raise thesiege, and took a great booty.

5240 1236 The Greeks come again before Constantinople, and

are again defeated and put to flight; but throughfrequent sallies and encounters the Latins are re-duced to few m number, w hereupon John Brienne,the regent, retires into the imperial city, and sendsthe young emperor to solicit the Latin princespersonally for assistance. The Venetians comewith a powerful licet, and force Azen and Va-taces to raise the siege.

Henry III. of England marries Eleanor, the daughterof the earl of Provence, Jan. 14.

5241 1237 Milan, and certain other famous cities in Italy rebell-

ed against the emperor; upon which he is againcursed by pope Gregory, and proclaimed an he-retic. 'Phis disagreement of the pope and em-peror caused great trouble in Italy.

The Bulgarians ami Greeks quarrelling, John Azenjoins the Latins, and lays siege to Chiorli, butsoon after races it.

5244 1240 The people of Italy are divided, some adhering to

the pope, others to the emperor; those that fa-voured the bishop were called Guelphs, the othersGibbolines. On account of this dissension Italy9 w