THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 22
July 22 in history
What happened on July 22: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1209, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Massacre at Béziers
22 Jul 1209 — a crusade proclaimed against Christian heretics in Languedoc sacks the town and kills thousands, believers and Cathars alike. “Kill them all — God will know his own,” a chronicler reports. Crusade turned inward. A site of memory.
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