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Events

* Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.
* March 13 — Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
* August 22 — Battle of the Standard: David I of Scotland is defeated by the English.
* October 11 — A deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria kills about 230,000 people.
* Conrad III of Germany becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
* Bavaria is taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.
* A castle in Scotland successfully defeats a siege despite being held by only nine knights.
* The earldom of Pembroke, created for Gilbert de Clare, is the first earldom created by the Norman kings within the borders of Wales.

Births

* March 28 — Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (d. 1204)
* Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (d. 1171)
* Casimir II of Poland (died 1194)
* Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (d. 1179)
* Saladin, [Malcolm Lyons and D.E.P. Jackson, "Saladin: The Politics of the Holy War", pg. 2.] ruler of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)

Deaths

* January 13 — Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
* January 25 — Antipope Anacletus II
* William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
* Ibn Bajjah — Andalusian philosopher
* King Boleslaus III the Wrymouth of Poland

References