What is 1096?
[[File:Peter the Hermit Preaching the First Crusade.jpg|thumb|alt=Peter the Hermit preaching in Cologne, to gather followers for the People's Crusade. |Peter the Hermit preaching in Cologne, to gather followers for the People's Crusade.]] {{Year nav|1096}} {{Year in various calendars|1096}} {{Year article header|1096}} ==Events== * Vital I Michele is Doge of Venice * Peter I, King of Aragon, conquers [[Huesca]] * Bernhard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg * First documented teaching at the [[University of Oxford]] * Phayao, now a province of [[Thailand]], is founded as a kingdom * Beginning of the People's Crusade, the German Crusade, and the [[First Crusade]]<ref> * {{cite journal |journal=Studies in Church History |title=The First Crusade and the Persecution of the Jews |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-church-history/article/abs/first-crusade-and-the-persecution-of-the-jews/6F89E56B68A5B3BE5853FEF23A522570 |last=Riley-Smith |first=Jonathan |volume=21: Persecution and Toleration |publisher=[[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] Press |pages=51–72 |doi=10.1017/S0424208400007531 |year=1984 |access-date=December 26, 2024 |quote=Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016.}} * {{cite book |title=Religious Violence between Christians and Jews |chapter=Christian Theology and Anti Jewish Violence in the Middle Ages: Connections and Disjunctions |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781403913821_3 |last=Cohen |first=Jeremy |pages=44–60 |year=2000 |access-date=December 25, 2024}} * {{cite book |title=Jewish History |chapter=Destruction or Conversion Intention and reaction, Crusaders and Jews, in 1096 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1014208904545 |last=Malkiel |first=David |pages=257–280 |volume=15 |year=2001 |access-date=December 25, 2024}} * {{cite book |title=Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt3fj00h |last=Cohen |first=Jeremy |publisher=[[University of Penns