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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ September 3 — St. Cuthbert reburied in the Durham Cathedral.

★ The Venice Arsenal, is founded in Venice.

★ Alfonso I of Aragon becomes King of Aragon and Navarre.

★ Historian Guibert of Nogent becomes abbot of Notre Dame de Nogent.

★ Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures Acre.

★ Baldwin II, count of Edessa, is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Harran; Tancred becomes regent.

★ Kilij Arslan I, Sultan of Rüm, starts a war with the Danishmends.

★ The volcano Hekla erupts in Iceland, destroying settlements.

Births

★ Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (d. 1168)

Deaths

★ Peter I of Aragon, King of Aragon and Navarre

★ Duqaq, Seljuk ruler of Damascus