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| Events in Outremer | Events in Europe | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1164 | Jan | Constitutions of Clarendon (England) | |
| May 16 | Héloise dies, age 63 | ||
| Aug 10 | Nur-ad-Din defeats and captures Bohemond III of Antioch at Artah; he is later ransomed | ||
| Oct 8 | Becket condemned for defiance of the English king by Council of Northampton | ||
| Nov 2 | Becket begins his exile in France | ||
| Petronilla of Aragon abdicates in favor of her son, Alfonso II, Count of Barcelona | |||
| Muslims recapture Cordova | |||
| 1165 | May 7 | Death of William I the Bad of Sicily | |
| Aug 21 | Philip II of France born. Henry VI of Germany born | ||
| Nov 23 | Pope Alexander enters Rome | ||
| Dec 9 | Death of Malcolm IV of Scotland; succeeded by his brother William I the Lion | ||
| 1166 | Emperor Frederick I begins his fourth expedition to Italy | ||
| Assize of Clarendon (England) | |||
| Boleslav IV of Poland defeated by the pagan Prussi tribes | |||
| 1167 | Mar 18 | King Amalric of Jerusalem defeated by Syrians at Ashmun | |
| Apr 27 | Lombard League formed to oppose Emperor Frederick I | ||
| May 29 | Imperial forces defeat the Romans outside Rome | ||
| Jul 24 | Frederick camps outside Rome; Pope Alexander flees | ||
| Aug | The imperial army is ravaged by disease; Frederick returns to Germany | ||
| Aug 4 | Saladin surrenders Alexandria to Amalric | ||
| Sep 10 | Death of Mathilda | ||
| Dec 24 | Birth of John of England. Birth of Ghengiz Khan. | ||
| 1168 | Nov 4 | Amalric invades Egypt; captures Bilbeis | |
| Nov 13 | Amalric camps outside Cairo, but is forced to withdraw upon the arrival of reinforcements sent by Nur-ad-din | ||
| Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, marries Matilda, daughter of King Henry II of England | |||
| Charles VII of Sweden defeated, killed and succeeded by Cnut Ericson | |||
| Death of Thoros of Armenia; succeeded by his son Roupen II | |||
| 1169 | Mar 23 | Saladin becomes Vizir of Egypt | |
| Aug 15 | Henry VI elected King of the Romans; Frederick is still Emperor | ||
| Dec 13 | Amalric and his Greek allies abandon their siege of Damietta | ||
| 1170 | Jul 22 | Henry and Becket are reconciled | |
| Nov 18 | Death of Albert the Bear, Margrave of Brandenburg | ||
| Nov 23 | Death of Owain the Great, King of Gwynned (Wales) | ||
| Dec 29 | Murder of Thomas Becket | ||
| Roger of Salerno publishes Practica Chirurgiae, earliest book in Europe on surgery | |||
| Peter Waldo initiates the movement of Poor Men of Lyons | |||
| Birth of St. Dominic | |||
| 1171 | Mar 12 | Emperor Manuel orders arrest of all Venetians in his territories; Venetians make war on his possessions in retaliation | |
| Sep 13 | Death of al-`Adid, last Fatimid Caliph of Egypt | ||
| Oct 16 | Henry II of England lands in Ireland, receives submission of local princes | ||
| Nur-ad-Din captures Mosul | |||
| Helmold publishes Chronicle of the Slavs | |||
| 1172 | May 21 | Henry absolved for the murder of Becket | |
| Mar | Henry II's sons rebel, supported by Louis VII | ||
| Oct 30 | Death of Boleslav IV of Poland | ||
| Death of Stephen III of Hungary; succeeded by Béla III | |||
| 1174 | May 15 | Death of Nur-ad-din | |
| Jul 11 | Death of Amalric I of Jerusalem; succeeded by his son Baldwin IV | ||
| Jul 12 | Henry II does penance at Canterbury for Becket's murder | ||
| Aug 14 | Henry makes peace with Louis | ||
| Sep 30 | Henry makes peace with his sons | ||
| Nov 26 | Saladin enters Damascus | ||
| 1175 | Apr 16 | Frederick makes peace with Lombard League | |
| May | The Caliph of Baghdad recognizes Saladin as Sultan of Egypt and Syria | ||
| 1176 | Apr 26 | Saladin defeats Safadin of Mosul | |
| May 29 | Lombard League defeats Frederick at Legnano | ||
| Sep 17 | Emperor Manuel defeated by Kilij Arslan II at Myriocephalum; a major defeat for the Byzantine Empire. | ||
| Oct | Treaty of Anagni; Frederick recognizes Alexander as pope, ending the long schism | ||
| 1177 | Jul 23 | Frederick makes truce with Lombard League | |
| Nov 25 | Baldwin defeats Saladin at Montgisard | ||
| Mieszko III of Poland succeeded by Casimir II | |||
| 1178 | Jul 30 | Frederick crowned King of Burgundy at Arles | |
| 1179 | Mar | Third Lateran Council | |
| Jun 10 | Saladin defeats Baldwin at the Litani River | ||
| Jun 24 | Henry the Lion put under the ban of the Empire | ||
| Sep 17 | Death of St. Hildegarde of Bingen (age 81) | ||
| Jan 13 | Henry the Lion dispossessed of his Saxon fiefs by Frederick | ||
| Apr | Philip II of France marries Isabel of Hainault, heiress to Artois | ||
| Jun 29 | Death of Safadin | ||
| Sep 18 | Death of Louis VII; succeeded by his son Philip II | ||
| Sep 24 | Death of Manuel; succeeded by his son Alexius II | ||
| Oct 25 | Death of John of Salisbury (age 60) | ||
| Earliest European reference to a stern-post rudder | |||
| First mention of a windmill in Europe (Normandy) | |||
| College des Dix-huit, first college of University of Paris | |||
| 1181 | Aug 30 | Death of Pope Alexander III; succeeded by Cardinal Ubald of Ostia as Pope Lucius III | |
| Henry II's sons again rebel | |||
| Lübeck surrenders to Frederick; Henry the Lion banished to England for three years | |||
| St. Francis of Asissi born | |||
| Mainz Cathedral begun | |||
| Cardinal-bishop Henry of Albano directs fighting against Albigensians | |||
| 1182 | May 12 | Death of Waldemar I the Great of Denmark; succeeded by his son, Cnut VI | |
| Jul | Battle of Belvoir between Saladin and Baldwin, inconclusive | ||
| Sep | Andronicus I Comnenus usurps the Greek Empire; he murders Alexius II, his mother, and her advisers | ||
| Oct | Saladin captures Edessa | ||
| Reynald of Châtillon raids as far south as the Red Sea | |||
| 1183 | Jun 11 | Death of Prince Henry, son of Henry II | |
| Jun 18 | Saladin takes Aleppo | ||
| Jun 25 | Treaty of Constance; Frederick makes peace with the Lombard League | ||
| Aug 24 | Saladin makes Damascus his capital | ||
| 1184 | Jun 15 | Magnus VI of Norway defeated and killed by Sverre | |
| Death of King George IV of Georgia; succeeded by his daughter, Thamar | |||
| Cyprus rebels against Greek rule | |||
| William of Tyre, History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea | |||
| Danish missionaries begin conversion of the Livs (Latvia) | |||
| 1185 | Mar | Death of Baldwin IV; succeeded by his nephew, Baldwin V | |
| John of England unsuccessfully invades Ireland | |||
| Jun | William of Sicily invades the Greek Empire, capturing Durazzo and Corfú | ||
| Jul | Treaty of Boves, by which Philip II of France acquires Amiens and other territories from Flanders | ||
| Aug | Normans sack Salonika | ||
| Sep | Henry the Lion returns to Germany | ||
| Sep | Emperor Andronicus killed in a riot in Constantinople; succeeded by his cousin, Isaac II Angleus, who defeats the Norman invasion at Mosinopolis | ||
| Nov 24 | Death of Pope Lucius III; succeeded by Urban III | ||
| Oxford University established | |||
| 1186 | Jan 27 | Henry VI marries Constance of Sicily; he is crowned king of Burgundy, Germany, and Italy | |
| Jun | Pope Urban encourages Archbishop of Cologne to rebel against Frederick, forcing the emperor to return from Italy | ||
| Aug | Death of Baldwin V; succeeded by his mother, Sybilla, who then crowns her husband Guy of Lusignan as King of Jerusalem | ||
| Sep | Theodore and Asen free Bulgaria from Greek rule; their allies, the Cumans, raid in Thrace | ||
| 1187 | Jul 3 | Horns of Hattin | |
| Sep 5 | Birth of Louis VIII | ||
| Oct 3 | Saladin captures Jerusalem | ||
| Oct 20 | Death of Urban III; succeeded by Gregory VIII | ||
| Nov | Conrad of Montferrat repulses Saladin's attack on Tyre | ||
| Dec 17 | Death of Gregory VIII; succeeded by Clement III | ||
| Gerard of Cremona translates nearly 100 Greek and Arab works into Latin | |||