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Events

April 25 — Genpei War: The naval Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to a Minamoto victory in Japan, and the death of Emperor Antoku.
August 15 — The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
September 11 — Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
Templars settle in London and begin building the New Temple Church.
The Heian Period ends and the Kamakura period begins in Japan.
The Katedralskolan, the oldest school in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe, is founded in Lund, Sweden.
Peter and Asen led a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.
November 25 — Pope Urban III succeeds Pope Lucius III as the 172nd pope.
Mohammad of Ghur takes Punjab and Lahore, overthrowing the Ghaznavids.

Births

April 23 — King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
Inge II of Norway (d. 1217)
Gertrude of Merania, queen of Andrew II of Hungary (d. 1213)

Deaths

April 25 — Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
June 16 — Richeza of Poland, daughter of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. c. 1140)
July 18 — Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala
July 25 — King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
September 12 — Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1118)
November 25 — Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
December 6 — King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)
Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)
Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (b. 1160)
Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (b. 1158)
Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (b. 1152)
Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier (b. c. 1105)

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