Events

• February 19 - Second Battle of Uji: Minamoto no Yoshinaka is defeated by his cousins, Yoshitsune and Yoritomo, for the control of Japan.
• June 15 - Battle of Fimreite: King Sverre of Norway defeats and kills his rival, Magnus Erlingsson, to take the throne.
• The city of Abbeville receives its commercial charter.
• Archbishop Absalon of Lund wins a naval victory over Bogislav, duke of Pomerania.
• The streets of Paris are paved by order of Philip Augustus.
• Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur becomes the third Almohad Caliph.
• The Papal bull Ad Aboldendam is issued against several European heretical groups: the Cathars, the Waldensians, the Patarines and the Humiliati. It is created after a landmark meeting in Verona between the Holy Roman Empire under Frederick Barbarossa and the Roman Church under Pope Lucius III.

Births

• April 11 — William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (d. 1213)
• Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (approximate date; d. 1241)
• Saadi, Iranian poet (d. 1291)

Deaths

• February 16 — Richard of Dover, Archbishop of Canterbury
• March 27 — Giorgi III, king of Georgia
• June 15 — Magnus Erlingsson, king of Norway (b. 1156)
• July 29 — Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph

Heads of states

• England — Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154–1189).
• France — Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180–1223).