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Events
- Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed Daijo Daijin, chief minister of the government of Japan.
- Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily.
- Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund.
- Absalon fortifies Copenhagen.
- William Marshal, called "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted in England.
- Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon.
- Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt.
- William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre.
- May 29 — Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of Roman Senate is defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes; Pope Alexander III leaves Rome.
Births
Deaths
- January 23 or January 28 — Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (b. 1092 or 1093)
- August 14 — Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (b. c. 1120) (of epidemic after accompanying Frederick Barbarossa on a campaign into Latium).
- Děpold I of Jamnitz (epidemic)
- Frederick IV of Swabia (epidemic)
- Henry II of Limburg (epidemic)
- September 10 — Empress Maud, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor) (b. 1102)
- Yesugei, father of Genghis Khan
- Robert of Melun, English theologian and bishop
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