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Events

• January 21 — Philip II of France and Henry II of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
• February 18 — Emperor Xiaozong abdicated to Emperor Guangzong.
• August 29 — Ban Kulin writes The Charter of Kulin, which becomes a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.
• September 3 — Richard Lionheart is crowned as king of England.

• This year is fixed as the end of time immemorial in English law in 1276.
• The Siege of Acre begins.
• The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.
• The town of Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland gains its charter.

Ongoing

• Khmer-Cham War (1170-1203)
• Third Crusade (1187-1191)

Births

• date unknown
  • Saint Pedro Nolasco, French religious leader (d. 1256)
  • Yelü Chucai, Mandarin statesman (d. 1243)
  • Yuri II, grand prince of Vladimir (d. 1238)
• probable - Skule Bårdsson, Norwegian nobleman (d. 1240)

Deaths

• January 1 - Henry of Marcy, Cistercian abbot (b. c. 1136)
• March 25 - Frederick of Bohemia
• May 17 — Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
• July 6 — King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
• July 13 — Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
• September 3 - Jacob of Orléans, Jewish scholar
• October 1 — Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• November 11 — King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (b. 1153)
• November 14 — William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
• date unknown
  • Anvari, Persian poet (b. 1126)
  • Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair, King of Connacht
  • Fulmar, Archbishop of Trier (b. c. 1135)
  • Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland
  • Geoffrey Ridel, Lord Chancellor of England
  • Saito Musashibo Benkei, Japanese fighting monk (b. 1155)
  • Emperor Shizong of Jin (b. 1123)