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Events

* Saladin unsuccessfully besieges the Hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers in modern Syria.
* Newgate Prison is built in London.
* Richard Lionheart allies with Philip II of France against his father, Henry II of England.
* Giraldus Cambrensis and Baldwin of Exeter travel through Wales attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.
* The "Saladin tithe" is levied in England.
* Alfonso IX of Leon becomes king of Leon.
* Queen Tamar of Georgia marries David Soslan.
* The legenday Cutting of the elm occurs at Gisors in Normandy.

Births

* March 4 — Blanche of Castile (d. 1252)

Deaths

* August 22 — Ferdinand II of Leon (b. 1137)
* October 11 — Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France (b. c. 1123)
* Usamah ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (b. 1095)
* Sultan Ali bin Hasan of Kilwa