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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed ''Daijo Daijin'', chief minister of the government of Japan

★ Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily

★ Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund

★ Absalon fortifies Copenhagen

★ William Marshal, "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted

★ Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon

★ Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt

★ William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre

★ May 29 — Battle of Monte Porzio, in which the Roman Army was defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes

Births

★ September 10 — Alexius II Comnenus, December 24 — John of England, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183)

★ Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (d. 1191)

Deaths

★ January 23 or January 28 — Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (b. 1092 or 1093)

★ August 14 — Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (b. c. 1120) dies of epidemic after accompanying Frederick Barbarossa on a campaign into Latium. Several other high-ranking noblemen died of the same epidemic at about the same time, including Děpold I of Jamnitz, Frederick IV of Swabia, and Henry II of Limburg.

★ September 10 — Empress Maud, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor) (b. 1102)

★ Yesugei, father of Genghis Khan

★ Robert of Melun, English theologian and bishop