* 1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah.

The second and much more formidable host of crusaders gradually made its way to Constantinople, led in sections by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond IV of Toulouse and other important members of the western nobility.

Crusader Prince Godfrey of Bouillon, who became the first crusader monarch of Jerusalem, decided not to use the title " king " during his lifetime, and declared himself Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri ( Protector ( or Defender ) of the Holy Sepulchre ).

Godfrey of Bouillon | Godefroy de Bouillon, a French knight, leader of the First Crusade and founder of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

* 1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Raymond IV of Toulouse and Godfrey of Bouillon were recognized as the leaders of the crusade and the siege of Jerusalem.

* Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine and a Crusader

** July 15 – Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem after a difficult siege.

* July 18 – Godfrey of Bouillon, King of Jerusalem

The Caliphate lasted in the area until 1099, when the Christian Crusader Godfrey de Bouillon took Hebron and renamed it " Castellion Saint Abraham ".

Jerusalem's first three rulers, Godfrey of Bouillon ( 1099 – 1100 ), his brother Baldwin I ( 1100 – 1118 ), and their cousin Baldwin II ( 1118 – 1131 ), expanded and secured the kingdom's borders, which encompassed roughly the same territory as modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon.

* John Carl Andressohn, The Ancestry and Life of Godfrey of Bouillon.

' It is still debated as to what extent the exploits of notable knights and historical figures such as Saladin, Godfrey of Bouillon, William Marshal and Bertrand du Guesclin set new standards of knightly behavior, or were instead reflections of existing models of conduct.

At this time, the dedication of the Scottish book, The Complaynt of Scotland, recalled Mary of Guise's descent from Godfrey de Bouillon and claimed her courage and virtue exceeded those of the ancient heroines Tomyris, Semiramis and Penthesilea.

** Godfrey of Bouillon, King of Jerusalem

He went on the First Crusade in 1096 with his brothers Godfrey of Bouillon ( duke of Lower Lotharingia ) and Baldwin of Boulogne.

Aside from Adhemar and Raymond, other leaders he recruited throughout 1096 included Bohemond of Taranto, a southern Italian ally of the reform popes ; Bohemond's nephew Tancred ; Godfrey of Bouillon, who had previously been an anti-reform ally of the Holy Roman Emperor ; his brother Baldwin of Boulogne ; Hugh I, Count of Vermandois, brother of the excommunicated Philip I of France ; Robert Curthose, brother of William II of England ; and his relatives Stephen II, Count of Blois and Robert II, Count of Flanders.

alt = A map of the Mediterranean, with the routes of Hugh I of Vermandois, Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond IV of Toulouse, Robert Curthose, and Baldwin of Boulogne highlighted.

Godfrey of Bouillon was rumoured to have extorted money from the Jews of Cologne and Mainz, and many of the Crusaders wondered why they should travel thousands of miles to fight non-believers when there were already non-believers closer to home.

He was the brother of Godfrey of Bouillon, who was the first ruler of the crusader state of Jerusalem, although Godfrey refused the title of ' king ' which Baldwin accepted.

Baldwin was a son of Eustace II of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine ( daughter of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine ), and the younger brother of Eustace III of Boulogne and Godfrey of Bouillon.

In April 1609 the first attempt at settlement by Europeans was made by an English expedition of 204 adventurers led by Messrs Godfrey, Hall, Lull, and Robinson, who arrived in the ships Diana, the Penelope, and the Endeavour.

The first laws of the kingdom were, according to tradition, established during Godfrey of Bouillon's short reign, but were more probably established by Baldwin II at the Council of Nablus in 1120.

The work of the Bollandists Danile Paperbroch, Jean Bolland and Godfrey Henschen in the 17th century was one of the first pieces of scholarly research to establish the historicity of the saint's existence via their publications in Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and paved the way for other scholars to dismiss the medieval legends.

This reflected the almost mythological status that Godfrey and the other first crusaders held for the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the late twelfth century.

A cantata for children's choir & piano, ' Arion and the Dolphin ', by the English composer Philip Godfrey, was first performed in 2003.

This led the foundation to another powerful reconstruction method called " Algebraic Reconstruction Technique ( ART )" which was later adapted by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield as the image reconstruction mechanism in his famous invention, the first commercial CT scanner.

The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-rays.

* 1971 – Sir Godfrey Hounsfield invents the first commercial CT scanner

Arthur was not the first choice for the role, but Carole Lombard, the original female lead, " ankled " the film just three days before principal photography, in favor of a starring role in My Man Godfrey.

My Man Godfrey was the first movie to be nominated in all four acting categories, in the first year that supporting categories were introduced.

Paisley's first political involvement came at the 1950 UK general election, when he campaigned on behalf of the successful Ulster Unionist Party candidate in Belfast West, the Church of Ireland minister James Godfrey MacManaway.

Nicholas Shapleigh built the first house in the area, and Edward Godfrey established a trading post in 1632.

In the northern part of the town, among the first residents were Andrew Smith, Martinus Smith, Isaac Root, Henry Stupplebeen, John Stupplebeen, Godfrey Wood and Samuel Hammond.

Further it is also noted that due to his education, Godfrey becomes the first teacher in the area that surrounds Wilmore Pennsylvania.

Godfrey built the first sawmill in this section of the County on the Little Conemaugh River, below the town of Wilmore, Pennsylvania.

In 1958 the EMIDEC 1100, the UK's first transistorised computer, was developed at Hayes under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield.

On 14 December 1903, the Orchestra gave its 500th symphony concert, conducted by Godfrey ; a souvenir booklet listed all the works played by the orchestra since its inception, noting any first performances.

After the successful siege of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, although he refused the title " King " as he said that title belonged to God.

" While he was besieging the city of Acre, Godfrey, the ruler of Jerusalem, was struck by an arrow, which killed him ", reports the Arab chronicler Ibn al-Qalanisi.

Because he had been the first ruler in Jerusalem, Godfrey of Bouillon was idealized in later accounts.

The most famous of the Lords of Bouillon was Godfrey of Bouillon, a leader of the First Crusade and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem had its origins in the First Crusade, when Godfrey of Bouillon took the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri ( Protector of the Holy Sepulcher ) in 1099 and was crowned as ruler of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

The earliest variants of the story appear in French chansons de geste attached to the family of Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

As the first ruler of the newly-established Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Godfrey loomed large in the medieval Christian imagination, and his shadowy genealogy became a popular subject for writers of the period.

The Knight of the Swan story was previously known from the tales of the ancestry of Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.