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Europe
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June 3 —Thomas Becket is consecrated asArchbishop of Canterbury .
*July 15 —Ladislaus II of Hungary is declaredKing of Hungary .
*Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa seizes and destroysMilan , scattering its inhabitants among four villages.Asia
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July 24 —Emperor Gaozong abdicates toEmperor Xiaozong .
*July 25 —Emperor Xiaozong announces he will posthumously rehabilitateYue Fei .
* TheBeisi Pagoda ofSong Dynasty China is completed.Births
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October 13 —Leonora of England , queen ofAlfonso VIII of Castile (d.1214 )
*Abd-el-latif ,Baghdad traveler and writer (d.1231 )
*Genghis Khan , founder of theMongol Empire (d.1227 )
*Muhammad of Ghor ,Persia n conqueror and sultan (d.1206 )
*Renier of Montferrat , Byzantine politician (d.1183 )
*Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (d.1218 )Deaths
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February 10 — KingBaldwin III of Jerusalem (b.1130 )
*June 27 —Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b.1118 )
*July 7 — KingHaakon II of Norway
*August 6 —Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c.1113 )
* Heloise, lover ofPierre Abélard (b.1101 )
*Iziaslav III of Kiev
*Ibn Zuhr , Arab physician (b.1090 )
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