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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ End of the reign of Emperor Sutoku, emperor of Japan.

★ Emperor Konoe ascends to the throne of Japan.

★ Henry the Lion becomes Duke of Saxony.

★ The Empress Maud, granted Oakley, Buckinghamshire church, with its chapels of Brill, Boarstall and Addingrove to the monks of St. Frideswide's Priory, in Oxford.

★ Possible formation of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Births

★ Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet (d. 1220)

★ Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1192)

Deaths

★ January 27 — Yue Fei, Chinese military leader (b. 1103)

★ April 21 — Pierre Abélard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)