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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Count Henry I of Champagne marries Marie de Champagne.

★ Uppsala is recognized as the seat of the Swedish metropolitan.

★ Antipope Paschal III elected by cardinals supporting Frederick Barbarossa.

★ Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf.

★ Archbishop Rainald of Dassel brings relics of the Magi from Milan to Cologne.

★ Henry II insists that everyone in the kingdom, including clerics, be subject to the royal courts.

★ Thomas Becket contends with Henry II, leaves England to solicit support from the Pope and the King of France.

★ The first written record of Tver.

Births

★ September 21 — Sancha of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VII of Castile (d. 1208)

★ December 28 — Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)

Deaths

★ April 20 — Antipope Victor IV

★ 19 May — Saint Bashnouna, an Egyptian saint and martyr

★ September 14 — Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)

★ December 31 — Margrave Ottokar III of Styria

★ Svyatoslav Olgovich, Prince of Novgorod-Seversky

★ Fujiwara no Tadamichi, Japanese regent (b. 1097)

★ Somerled, Lord of the Isles