Events

• Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din.
• Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev.
• Start of the conquest of Ireland. Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster.
• Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her great court in Poitiers where the Courts of Love flourished.

Births

• September 10 - Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

Deaths

• January 2 - Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian

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