Visual Timeline: Northern Crusades

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1147 CE - 1148 CE: Campaigns against pagans in the Baltic are led by Germanic and Danish nobles during the Second Crusade.
 
 
1147 CE: Dobin and Malchow in northeast Germany are captured during the Second Crusade.
 
 
1242 CE: An army of Teutonic knights is defeated by the Russians at Lake Peipus.
 
 
1308 CE: The Teutonic Order acquires Danzig and eastern Pomerania.
 
 
1309 CE: The headquarters of the Teutonic Order is moved to a fortified convent at Marienburg in Prussia.
 
1346 CE: The Teutonic Order acquires control of northern Estonia.
 
1410 CE: At the battle of Tannenburg an army of Teutonic knights is wiped out.
 
1457 CE: The headquarters of the Teutonic Order is relocated to Konigsberg.
 
1525 CE: The Teutonic Order is secularized in Prussia.
 
1562 CE: The Teutonic Order is secularized in Livonia.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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