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Events

★ June — A fire broke out in the Song Dynasty Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000 homes and forcing many to flee to nearby hills. Due to large fires such as this, the government would install an effecitve fire fighting force for the city. Items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting became temporarily exempt from taxation, 120 tons of rice were distributed to the poor, and the government temporarily suspended the requirement of the city's residents to pay their housing rents.

★ July 24 — Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.

★ Dermot MacMurrough has the abbey of Kildare in Ireland burned and the abbess raped. He becomes king of the province of Leinster.

★ St Malachy is made bishop of Armagh in Ireland, to impose the Roman liturgy on the independent Irish Church.

★ Foundation of Fountains Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey, in Yorkshire.

★ Basingwerk Abbey founded.

★ Start of the Japanese era 長承 (Choushou).

★ Tughril II starts his rule of Iraq.

★ Under the Song Dynasty, China's first permanent standing navy is established in this year, with the headquarters of the admiral stationed at Dinghai.

Births

★ Joachim of Fiore, Italian mystic and abbot. (d. 1201)

★ Rhys ap Gruffydd, ruler of Deheubarth (d. 1197)

Deaths

★ April 14 — Prince Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076)

★ Hugh of Grenoble, French saint (b. 1052)