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Events

★ Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges

★ City of Airdrie, Scotland founded

★ King Sverker I of Sweden deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden

★ Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg

★ Peter the Lombard publishes ''Sentences''

★ University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, founded

★ During Crusades, city of Ashkelon fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers

★ Earl of Bedford created

★ Cubbie Roo's Castle built on Wyre, Orkney

★ Mersey Ferry begins running between Liverpool and Birkenhead

★ Neuruppin city founded in Brandenburg, Germany

★ Rinteln city founded in Lower Saxony, Germany

★ Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux

★ Joscelin II of Edessa taken prisoner during Second Crusade

★ Tuam promoted to a Metropolitan Archdiocese, Ireland

★ Earliest textual reference made to Gypsies working as musicians (in Constantinople)

★ Castle Rising built in Norfolk, England by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel

★ Garcia IV Ramirez ends reign as King of Navarre

★ Bishopric of Aberdeen established

★ Christian Malone writes Irish Chronology Chronicum Scotorum

★ Christchurch Priory founded

Births

★ Leo II of Armenia (d. 1229).

★ William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber (approximate date; d. 1211).

★ Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (approximate date; d. 1176).

★ Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1198).

★ Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (d. 1220).

★ Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d. 1195).

★ Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date; d. 1228).

★ Beatrice, Countess of Dia.

Deaths

★ Emperor Xizong of Jin, the third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty

★ Suryavarman II, Khmer king, builder of Angkor Wat

★ Barisan of Ibelin, figure in the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem

★ Pribislav of Brandenburg, last king of the Hevelli (b. c. 1075)