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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Heads of states

Events

★ July 5 — Document written that first mentions the tow of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria.

★ Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as patriarch of Alexandria.

★ Henry the Lion erects first bronze statue north of the Alps.

★ Assize of Clarendon enacted in England.

Births

★ July 29 — Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)

★ December 24 — John of England (d. 1216)

★ Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)

★ William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)

Deaths

★ May 7 — William I of Sicily

★ Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend; per legend b. 1130)

★ Abdul Qadir Jelani, founder of the Qadiriyyah Sufi Tariqah (b. 1077)

Heads of states

★ England — Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154–1189)

★ France — Louis VII, King of France (reigned 1137–1180)