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April 14 —Pope Celestine III succeedsPope Clement III as the 175thpope .
*April 17 —Tusculum is destroyed by theCommune of Rome 's army.
*May 12 —Richard I of England marriesBerengaria of Navarre .
*July 12 —Saladin 's garrison surrenders, ending the two-yearsiege of Acre .Conrad of Montferrat , who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of theKingdom of Jerusalem and of theThird Crusade leadersRichard I of England ,Philip II of France , and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
*September 7 —Third Crusade :Battle of Arsuf —Richard I of England defeatsSaladin .
*November 27 —Reginald fitz Jocelin is electedArchbishop of Canterbury .
*Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned byPope Celestine III .
* The monks of Glastonbury Abbey announce that they have found the burial sites ofKing Arthur and QueenGuinevere .
*Duke Berthold V ofZähringen founds the city ofBerne (present-daySwitzerland ).
* Khmer KingJayavarman VII sacks the capital ofChampa .
* Eisai founds the RinzaiZen sect inJapan .
* The first reference to thewindmill in Europe is made by a Dean Herbert ofEast Anglia , whose mills supposedly were in competition with the abbey ofBury St Edmunds ; although hinted as being created as early as the 7th century, the first windmills were most likely innovated from the Bana Musa brothers in the Islamic Middle East during the middle 9th century; the windmill was introduced toChina by as early as 1219.Births
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February 8 —Yaroslav II of Russia (d.1246 )Deaths
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March 20 —Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b.1167 )
*March 27 —Pope Clement III
*December 26 —Reginald fitz Jocelin , Archbishop-elect of Canterbury
*William V, Marquess of Montferrat , Burgundian crusader (b. c.1115 )In Popular Culture
* The
video game Assassin's Creed is set in this year.
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