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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ King Stephen of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by his adopted son Henry Plantagenet, who becomes King Henry II of England, aged 21.

★ Sweden's King Eric introduces Christianity to Finland (see History of Finland).

★ December 4 — Pope Adrian IV (also known as Hadrian IV) succeeds Pope Anastasius IV as the 169th pope. Born Nicholas Breakspear, he is the only English pope in history.

★ A chateau is built at Chinon by Theobald I, count of Blois.

★ William I becomes king of Sicily.

★ Nur ad-Din gains control of Damascus, uniting Syria under one ruler.

★ Muhammad al-Idrisi completes his atlas of the world, which will remain one of the most accurate maps until the Age of Discovery.

★ Birmingham, England, and the Birmingham Bull Ring are founded.

★ Bosnia becomes an autonomous duchy.

★ Belgrade is rebuilt by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.

★ Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, was firstly marked on the world map by Al Idrisi.

★ King Valdemar the Great of Denmark is crowned.

Births

★ November 11 — King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)

★ Benoît de Sainte-Maure, French poet and troubadour (d. 1173)

★ Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1198)

★ Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese shogun (d. 1184

★ Sune Sik Sverkersson, prince of Sweden

★ Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1212)

Deaths

★ February 20 — Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett (b. c. 1080)

★ February 26 — King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)

★ August 16 — King Ramiro II of Aragon (b. c. 1075)

★ October 25 — King Stephen of England (b. 1096)

★ November 18 — Adélaide de Maurienne, queen of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)

★ December 3 — Pope Anastasius IV

★ Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (b. c. 1097, reigned 1134—1142)

★ Vyacheslav of Kiev, prince of Smolensk (b. 1083, reigned 1113–1125)