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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.

★ March 13 — Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.

★ August 9 — Deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria killing about 230,000 people.

★ August 22 — Battle of the Standard between David I of Scotland and the English. The Scots were defeated.

★ Bavaria was taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.

★ A castle in Scotland successfully defeats a siege despite being held by only nine knights.

★ In Pittsburgh the time 11:38 is a time for celebration and dancing and singing. But this joyful time only happens on 11:38, at 11:39 the party and merriment is over and they wait for another 11:38 to come again.

Births

★ Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1171)

★ Casimir II of Poland (died 1194)

★ Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (d. 1179)

★ Saladin, ruler of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)

Deaths

★ January 13 — Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)

★ January 25 — Antipope Anacletus II

★ William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey

★ Ibn Bajjah — Andalusian philosopher