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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ May 1 — Battle of Cresson — Saladin defeats the crusaders.

★ July 4 — Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, at the Battle of Hattin.

★ September 20 — October 2 — Siege of Jerusalem — Saladin captures Jerusalem.

★ October 21 — Pope Gregory VIII succeeds Pope Urban III as the 173rd pope.

★ October 29 — Pope Gregory VIII issues the bull ''Audita tremendi'', proposing the Third Crusade.

★ December 19 — Pope Clement III succeeds Pope Gregory VIII as the 174th pope.

★ Alexius Branas attempts to seize Constantinople in defiance of his master Isaac II Angelus.

★ Cathedral of St. Jacob consecrated in Szczecin, Pomerania.

★ Estonians, Curonians and Karelians destruct Sigtuna and kill the archbishop.

★ Knut Eriksson builds a castle in the island of Stockholm.

★ The Toltecs are deposed at Chichen Itza.

★ Zen Buddhism comes to Japan.

★ King of Ankor Vat, Jayavarman VII defeats Cham conquerors.

★ Ghorin Muhammed conquers Punjab.

★ Genoa takes Bonifacio (in Corsica) from Pisa.

★ Glanvill, an official of King Henry II, describes how villeins can be free (approximate date).

Births

★ September 5 — King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)

★ Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1203)

★ Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1239)

Deaths

★ July 4 — Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch (executed, b. c. 1125)

★ October 19 — Pope Urban III

★ November 9 — Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)

★ December 17 — Pope Gregory VIII (b. c. 1100)

★ Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator of scientific works (b. c. 1114)

★ Roger de Moulins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

★ Count Raymond III of Tripoli (b. 1140)