1170

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Henry II wishes aloud that Thomas Becket be destroyed.

★ December 29 — Assassination of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury cathedral.

★ City of Dublin captured by the Normans.

★ According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailed to North America and founded a colony.

★ Estimation: Fes in the Almohad Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.[1]

★ Danes made an attack against Estonia.

Births

★ Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241)

★ Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)

★ Eustace the Monk, French pirate (d. 1217)

★ Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of Philip II of France (d. 1190)

Deaths

★ January 22 — Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (born 1113)

★ November 18 — Albert I of Brandenburg (b. c. 1100)

★ November 28 — Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. c. 1100)

★ December 29 — Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. c. 1118)

★ Al-Mustanjid, Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad

★ Ruben II of Armenia (b. 1160)

★ Mstislav II of Kiev

★ Eliezer ben Nathan, Jewish poet and writer (b. 1090)

★ Eudes, Viscount of Porhoet, co-ruler of the duchy of Brittany