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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Heads of states

Events

★ Diet of Roncaglia convoked by Frederick Barbarossa.

★ January 11 — Vladislav II becomes king of Bohemia.

★ End of the formal reign of Emperor Go-Shirakawa, emperor of Japan, also the beginning of his cloistered rule, which will last to his death in 1192.

★ Ireland, the Diocese of Derry is erected.

★ November 29 — Eleanor of Aquitaine arrives in Salisbury, Wiltshire on royal business.

★ Emperor Nijō ascends to the throne of Japan.

★ British Pound Sterling (currency) introduced.

★ Margrave Ottokar III of Styria inherited the County of Pitten.

Births

★ September 23 — Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)

★ Marguerite of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1197)

★ Taira no Shigehira, son of Taira no Kiyomori (d. 1185)

Deaths

★ August 30 — King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)

★ September 22 — Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (born c. 1114)

Heads of states

★ England — Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154–1189)

★ France — Louis VII, King of France (reigned 1137–1180)

★ Ireland — Muirchertach III, High King of Ireland (reigned 1156–1166)