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★ April 14 — Pope Celestine III succeeds Pope Clement III as the 175th pope.

★ April 17 — Tusculum's destruction by Commune of Rome army.

★ May 12 — Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.

★ July 12 — Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.

★ September 7 — Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf — Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

★ November 27 — Election of Reginald Fitz Jocelin as Archbishop of Canterbury

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★ The monks of Glastonbury Abbey announce that they have found the burial sites of King Arthur and his Queen Guinevere.

★ Duke Berthold V of Zähringen founds the city of Berne in today's Switzerland.

★ Khmer king Jayavarman VII sacks the capital of Champa.

Births

★ February 8 — Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)

Deaths

★ March 20 — Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)

★ March 27 — Pope Clement III

★ December 26 — Reginald Fitz Jocelin Archbishop-elect of Canterbury

★ William V, Marquess of Montferrat, Burgundian crusader (b. c. 1115)

Video Games

★ The video game Assassin's Creed is set in this year.