11th century
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Overview: History - Epochs - Turnings - Centuries BC - Centuries AD
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This was the period where the final split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church occurred.
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- Nestorian missonaries push east from Merv and Bohara and Tashkent east toward China.
- 1000 - Leif the Lucky evangelizes Greenland
- 1000 - Central Asia. Mahmud the Idol-breaker, Muslim sultan of Ghazni, invades Kashmir, overturning kings and dynasties and plundering temples, converting the Hindu Punjab to Islam and creating the precursor of what became modern Pakistan.
- 1008 - Sigfrid (or Sigurd), English missionary, baptizes King Olof of Sweden
- 1009 - Bruno of Querfurt is beheaded in Prussia where he had gone as a missionary
- 1009 - Mission to Keraits on Mongolian steppes results in the baptism of the Kerait prince and 200,000 tribesmen; Keraits become a Nestorian Christian tribe of increasing importance.
- 1009 - Caliph al-Hakim of Cairo tears down the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, one of the most holy shrines in Christendom; significant persecution under his regime.
- 1015 - Russia is said to have been "comprehensively" converted to the Orthodox faith
- 1017 - The Danish king Canute converts to Christianity.
- 1054 - The Great Schism separates the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church, during which Rome excommunicated the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church while the Patriarch condemned Rome's position.
- 1055 - Persia. Seljuk Turks conquer Abassid dynasty, capture Baghdad.
- 1070 - Turks capture Jerusalem.
- 1095 - Pope Urban II calls Christian lords in western Europe to "rescue the Holy Land" from the Turks, offers a plenary indulgence to anyone who takes part.
- 1097 - Armies of the First Crusade (also called the French Crusade) arrive in Constantinople, fight their way through Asia Minor.
- 1098 - Crusaders capture Antioch.
- 1099 - Crusaders capture Jerusalem and massacre 70,000 Muslims as well as Jews; Crusaders set up feudal states in Syria, Palestine.
