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Events

* Louis VII capitulates to Pope Celestine II and so earns the pope's absolution.
* March 12 — Pope Lucius II succeeds Pope Celestine II as the 166th pope.
* December 24 — The County of Edessa falls to Zengi of Mosul (see Siege of Edessa).
* The city of Montauban, France is founded.
* The first example of an anti-Semitic blood libel is recorded in England.
* Normandy comes under Angevin control under Geoffrey of Anjou.
* The city of Ljubljana, Slovenia is first mentioned in historical records.
* Giordano Pierleoni founds the revolutionary Commune of Rome.
* Manuel I Comnenus brings Raymond, Prince of Antioch, under Byzantine influence.
* The Priory in Lesmahagow is founded by Benedictine monks.

Births

* Bohemund III of Antioch (d. 1201)

Deaths

* March 8 — Pope Celestine II
* September — Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex