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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ January 21 — Philip II of France and Henry II of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade

★ February 18 — Emperor Xiaozong abdicated to Emperor Guangzong.

★ September 3 — Richard Lionheart is crowned as king of England.

★ August 29 — Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.

★ This year was fixed as the end of time immemorial in English law in 1276.

★ Beginning of the Siege of Acre.

★ The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.

★ The town of Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland gains its charter.

Births

★ Yuri II, grand prince of Vladimir (d. 1238)

Deaths

★ May 17 — Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159).

★ July 6 — King Henry II of England (b. 1133).

★ July 13 — Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156).

★ October 1 — Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar.

★ November 11 — William II of Sicily ("the Good"), king of Sicily, (b. 1153).

★ November 14 — William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex.

★ Saito Musashibo Benkei, Japanese fighting monk (b. 1155).

★ Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair, King of Connacht.

★ Geoffrey Ridel, Lord Chancellor of England.