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★ February 2 — Pope Callixtus II succeeds Pope Gelasius II as the 162nd pope.

★ August 20 — Henry I of England routes Louis VI at the Battle of Bremule.

★ Battle of Ager Sanguinis — Crusaders defeated outside Antioch.

★ Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Cleveland and Annandale granted and confirmed the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg (Middlesbrough) to Whitby.

★ In his ''Pingzhou Table Talks'' published in this year, the Chinese author Zhu Yu wrote of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.

Births

★ July 7 — Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)

★ Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1176)

Deaths

★ January 24 — Pope Gelasius II

★ July 17 — Baldwin VII of Flanders

★ Alan IV, Duke of Brittany

★ Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch

★ Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick