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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ June 3 — Thomas Becket consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.

★ July 15 — Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.

★ July 24 — Emperor Gaozong abdicated to Emperor Xiaozong.

★ July 25 — Emperor Xiaozong announced to posthumously rehabilitate Yue Fei.

★ The Beisi Pagoda of Song Dynasty China is completed.

Births

★ October 13 — Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)

★ Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveler and writer (d. 1231)

★ Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (d. 1227)

★ Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (d. 1206)

★ Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician (d. 1183)

★ Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (d. 1218)

Deaths

★ February 10 — King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)

★ June 27 — Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)

★ July 7 — Haakon II of Norway

★ August 6 — Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c. 1113)

★ Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (b. 1101)

★ Iziaslav III of Kiev

★ Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (b. 1090)