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Events

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ April 9 — Treaty of Durham between King Stephen of England and David I of Scotland.

★ July 26 — 'Independence of Portugal' from the Kingdom of León and Castile declared after the Battle of Ourique against the Almoravids lead by Ali ibn Yusuf: 'Prince Afonso Henriques' becomes 'Afonso I, King of Portugal', after assembling the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he was given the Crown from the Bishop of Bragança, to confirm the independence.

★ Second Council of the Lateran, Beginning of celibacy in the Catholic Church.

Ongoing events

★ The Anarchy in England

Births

★ June 16 — Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)

★ Sir Ygo III of Galama — Frisian knight and nobleman (d. 1198)

Deaths

★ January 25 — Godfrey I of Leuven

★ February 18 — Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)

★ October 20 — Henry X, Duke of Bavaria

★ December — Roger of Salisbury, English bishop