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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Spring — London, popular uprising of the poor against the rich led by William Fitz Osbern.

★ According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reached North America in what is present-day Alabama.

★ Stefan Prvovencani becomes Grand Župan of Serbia

★ Creation of water boards in the region of present-day Netherlands, thereby being one of the oldest democratic entities still in existence in the world today.

Births

★ January 3 — Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)

★ Alice of Champagne, daughter of Henry II of Champagne and regent of Jerusalem (d. 1246)

Deaths

★ August 15 — Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)

★ King Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1152)

★ Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria

★ William Fitz Osbern

★ Vsevolod Svyatoslavich, Prince of Trubchevsk and Kursk