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Events

• September 3 — St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral.
• The Venice Arsenal is founded in Venice.
• Alfonso I of Aragon becomes King of Aragon and Navarre.
• Historian Guibert of Nogent becomes abbot of Notre Dame de Nogent.
• Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures Acre.
• Battle of Harran: Baldwin II, count of Edessa, is taken prisoner by the Seljuk Turks; Tancred becomes regent.
• Sultan Kilij Arslan I of Rüm starts a war with the Danishmends.
• The volcano Hekla erupts in Iceland, destroying settlements.

Births

• Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (d. 1168)

Deaths

• Peter I of Aragon, King of Aragon and Navarre
• Duqaq, Seljuk ruler of Damascus

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