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Events

• May 23 — Lothair of Saxony becomes Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Henry V.
• June 11 — Battle of Azaz: The Crusaders defeat the Seljuk Turks.
• War ends between Toulouse and Provence.
• Nassau Castle is built.
• Albert of Aix begins his Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis.
• Magnus the Strong becomes ruler of Sweden.
• The Venetians pillage Rhodes, ravage Samos and Lesbos, and occupy Chios.
• A collection of Zen Buddhist koans is compiled in the Chinese Blue Cliff Record.

Births

• Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (d. 1194)
• Lu You, Chinese poet (d. 1210)

Deaths

• January 24 — King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
• April 12 — Vladislav I of Bohemia
• May 19 — Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Duke of Kiev
• May 23 — Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
• October 21 — Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian chronicler
• Eustace III of Boulogne
• Ingold II, ruler of Sweden (b. 1105)
• Irnerius, teacher at Bologna

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