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Events

★ July 5 — Emperor Guangzong of Song China was forced to give up his throne.

★ Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

★ November 20 — Palermo falls to Henry VI.

★ December 25 — Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily.

★ City of Portsmouth awarded its Royal Charter.

★ Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter.

★ Yellow River of China experienced a major course change. It took over the Huai River drainage system for the next 700 years.

★ Danes made an attack against Estonia.

Births

★ July 16 — Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)

★ December 26 — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)

Deaths

★ February 20 — King Tancred of Sicily

★ May 5 — King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)

★ June 27 — King Sancho VI of Navarre (b. c. 1133)

★ June 28 — Emperor Xiaozong of China (b. 1127)

★ September 27 — Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (b. 1125)

★ November 15 — Margaret I of Flanders

★ December 31 — Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)

★ Benedictus Abbas, English chronicler

★ Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)

★ Raymond V of Toulouse (b. 1134)

★ Roger III of Sicily (b. 1175)

★ Sviatoslav III of Kiev