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Events

April 25—Genpei War: The naval Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to a Minamoto victory in Japan, and the death of Emperor Antoku.

August 15—The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

September 11—Isaac II Angelus leads a revolt in the Byzantine Empire which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and ends the Komnenos dynasty.

November 25—Pope Urban III succeeds Pope Lucius III as the 172nd pope.

Henry II of England knights his heir John of England and sends him to Ireland to enforce English control. According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol & the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy. By the end of the year, John has returned to England in defeat. Nonetheless, Henry gets him named King of Ireland by Pope Urban III and procures a golden crown with peacock feathers.King John by Warren. University of California Press, 1961. p. 35

Templars settle in London and begin building the New Temple Church.

The Heian Period ends and the Kamakura period begins in Japan.

The Katedralskolan, the oldest school in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe, is founded in Lund, Sweden.

Peter and Asen led a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.

Mohammad of Ghur takes Punjab and Lahore, overthrowing the Ghaznavids.

Igor Svyatoslavich's failed campaign against the Cumans, later immortalized in The Tale of Igor's Campaign