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Events

★ April 25 — Genpei War — Naval battle of Dan-no-ura leads to Minamoto victory in Japan.

★ August 15 — The cave city of Vardzia was consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

★ September 11 — Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

★ Templars settle in London and begin the building of New Temple Church.

★ End of the Heian Period and beginning of the Kamakura period in Japan.

★ Founding of Katedralskolan in Lund, Sweden. The school is the oldest in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe.

★ Peter and Asen led a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.

★ November 25 — Pope Urban III succeeds Pope Lucius III as the 172nd pope.

Births

★ April 23 — King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)

★ Inge II of Norway (d. 1217)

★ Gertrude of Merania, queen of Andrew II of Hungary (d. 1213)

Deaths

★ April 25 — Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)

★ June 16 — Richeza of Poland, daughter of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. c. 1140)

★ July 18 — Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala

★ July 25 — King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)

★ September 12 — Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1118)

★ November 25 — Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)

★ December 6 — King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)

★ Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)

★ Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)

★ Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (b. 1160)

★ Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (b. 1158)

★ Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (b. 1152)

★ Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier (b. c. 1105)