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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

• 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, Duchess of Saxony, 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
• 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)

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