Crusaders take Jerusalem

After a five-week siege in the July heat, the army of the First Crusade breached Jerusalem's northern wall and took the city. What followed shocked even contemporaries: the Muslim and Jewish inhabitants were massacred, in the Aqṣā mosque where they had taken refuge and through the streets, in numbers the sources give variously but always in the tens of thousands.

Ibn al-Athīr places the fall on 22 Shaʿbān 492 and records the refugees who reached Baghdad in Ramaḍān, weeping in the caliph's dīwān while the eastern powers, absorbed in their own quarrels, sent no army.

The city would remain in Crusader hands for 88 years, until the entry recorded at 27 Rajab 583.