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Events

★ February 14 — Pope Innocent II succeeds Pope Honorius II as the 164th pope.

★ An antipope schism occurs when Roger II of Sicily supports Anacletus II as pope instead of Innocent II. Innocent flees to France and Anacletus crowns Roger King.

★ Magnus the Blind and Harald Gille become joint kings of Norway. Start of the civil war era in Norway.

★ Magnus I of Gothenland is dethroned and succeeded as King of Sweden by Sverker the elder.

Births

★ Eustace IV of Boulogne (approximate date; d. 1153)

★ Daoji, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 1207)

★ Baldwin III of Jerusalem (d. 1162)

★ Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1176)

★ Zhu Xi, Chinese Confucian scholar (d. 1200

Deaths

★ February 13 — Pope Honorius II

★ March 26 — King Sigurd I of Norway (b. c. 1090)

★ November 11 — Princess Teresa of Leon

★ Brahmadeva, Indian mathematician (b. 1060)

★ Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (b. 1074)

★ Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (b. 1052)