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Events

January-March — In Song Dynasty China, scholars and farmers demonstrate around Kaifeng for the restoration of a probity military official, Li Gang (李綱). Small conflicts erupt between the protestors and the Government.
Rutherglen becomes one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.
The Jin Dynasty is established in the north of China, following the Song Dynasty's loss at the Huang He River valley. Remnants of the court flee south, including much of the populace and communities such as the Kaifeng Jews.
Alfonso VII is crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.
King Alfonso the Battler of Navarre and Aragon launches a raid into Granada.
Adelard of Bath translates Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.
Two previously written Chinese pharmaceutical works, one by Shen Kuo and another by Su Shi, are combined into one written work.
The Venetians occupy Cephalonia. Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos restores their trading privileges.