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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ March 16 — Massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England prompted by Crusaders and Richard Malebys kill 150–500 Jews in Clifford's Tower.

★ June 10 — Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.

★ October 4 — Richard I of England threatens war against Tancred of Sicily, and captures Messina

★ "On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy" (ar. Kitab fasl al-maqal) first published.

★ Coronation of Richard I of England (''the Lion-Hearted'').

★ Anti-Jewish riots in England.

★ In Myanmar, Anawrahta's lineage regains control with the assistance of Sri Lanka. Pagan has been in anarchy. The new regime reforms Burmese Buddhism on Sri Lankan Theravada models.

★ Henry I becomes Duke of Brabant.

★ Richard I of England and Philip II of France meet at Vézelay, beginning the Third Crusade.

★ Stevan Nemanja founds the Studenica monastery in Serbia.

★ The feudal era of Japan begins.

★ Cartmel Priory founded.

★ "Speculum Virginum", German manuscript, is published (approximate date).

Births

★ Vincent of Beauvais, Dominican friar and encyclopedist (d. 1264)

★ Peter I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1251)

★ William III of Sicily (d. 1198)

★ William of Sherwood, English logician (d. 1249)

Deaths

★ March 15 Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of Philip II of France (b. 1170)

★ June 10 — Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, (drowned) (b. 1122)

★ July 25 — Sibylla of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem (b. c. 1160)

★ William Fitzstephen, servant of Thomas à Becket and sheriff of Gloucester

★ Ranulf de Glanvill, chief justiciar of England

★ Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester