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Events

★ January — Byland Abbey founded.

★ Stephen succeeds his uncle Henry I as king of England. Matilda, daughter of Henry I and widow of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, opposes Stephen and claims the throne as her own.

★ The domination of Baghdad by the Seljuk Turks ends.

★ The first records of the Manor of Cramlington come into existence.

★ The Cistercian Abbey of St Mary and St Chad founded by Roger de Clinton, bishop of Coventry (1129-48).

★ A fire in London seriously damages St Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge.

★ Song Dynasty Chinese general Yue Fei defeats the rebel forces of Yang Yao by entangling his swift paddle-wheel ships with rotten logs and other debris precariously placed in the river. Yue Fei's forces easily boarded their ships and won a victory.

Births

★ March 30 — Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)

★ Petronila of Aragon, daughter of Ramiro II of Aragon (d. 1174)

★ Peter of Blois, French poet and diplomat (d. 1203)

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

★ Sharafeddin Tusi, Persian mathematician (d. 1213)

★ William of Newburgh, English historian and monk (d. 1198)

Deaths

★ June 4 — Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)

★ December 1 — King Henry I of England

★ Al-Mustarshid, Caliph of Baghdad

★ Milarepa, Tibetan yogi and poet (b. 1052)

★ Yuanwu Keqin, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (born 1063)