1009 CE - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian shrine in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph, Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
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George Kastrioti Skanderbeg (Albanian: Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu; Italian: Giorgio Castriota Scanderbeg; 1405 – 17 January 1468), commonly known as Skanderbeg (from Turkish: İskender Bey), was a 15th-century Albanian nobleman.[D]
Skanderbeg was born in 1405[G] to the noble Kastrioti family, in a village in Dibra. Sultan Murad II took him hostage in 1423 and he served the Ottoman Empire during the next twenty years. He was appointed as the governor of the Sanjak of Dibra by the Ottomans in 1440. In 1443, he deserted the Ottomans during the Battle of Niš and became the ruler of Krujë, Svetigrad and Modrič. In 1444, he initiated and organized the League of Lezhë, which proclaimed him Chief of the League of the Albanian people, and defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for 25 years.[1] Skanderbeg's rebellion was not a general uprising of Albanians, and he did not enjoy support in the largest Albanian cities, whether in the Ottoman-controlled south or Venetian-controlled north. His followers, along with Albanians, included Slavs, Vlachs and Greeks.[2]
In 1451 he recognized de jure the suzerainty of Kingdom of Naples through the Treaty of Gaeta, to ensure a protective alliance, although he remained a de facto independent ruler.[3]In 1460–1461, he participated in Italy's civil wars in support of Ferdinand I of Naples. In 1463, he became the chief commander of the crusading forces of Pope Pius II, but the Pope died while the armies were still gathering. Together with Venetians he fought against the Ottomans during the Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–79) until his death in January 1468.
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