Hospitallers seize Rhodes from Byzantium
1310
The Knights of St. John, homeless since the fall of Acre in 1291, stormed the island fortress after a two-year campaign against its Byzantine-Turkish garrison. Rhodes became their sovereign headquarters for two centuries, a crusader state adrift in the Aegean, raiding Muslim shipping, building imposing fortifications along the harbor, and minting its own coin.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.