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Births
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Events



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

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

May 12Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.

July 12Saladin'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 7Third Crusade: Battle of ArsufRichard 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 8Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)

Deaths



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

March 27Pope Clement III

December 26Reginald 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.

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