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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ January-March — In Sung, scholars and farmers demonstrated around Kaifeng and asked for the restoration of a probity military official, Li Gang (李綱). There were some small conflicts between the protestors and the Government.

★ Rutherglen becomes one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.

★ Establishment of the Jin Dynasty in the north of China with the Sung Dynasty's loss at the Huang He river valley.

★ Alfonso VII crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.

★ Adelard of Bath translated Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.

Births

★ Fan Chengda, Chinese poet (d. 1193)

Deaths

★ February 10 — William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (b. 1071)

★ March 8 — Queen Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)

★ October 1 — Morphia of Melitene, Queen of Jerusalem

★ Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (b. 1052)

★ Ekkehard of Aura, Abbot of Aura