Pilgrimage Timeline of Events

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A pilgrimage is a journey or search of great moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith...

Timeline of Events

1397

4.17.1397

Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.

2001

3.5.2001

In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

2004

2.1.2004

251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.