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Asia

• June 10 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River, while leading an army to Jerusalem.
• November 24 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure king.
• The Teutonic Knights are founded, to defend the Latin states in the Levant.
• In Myanmar, Anawrahta's lineage regains control with the assistance of Sri Lanka. Pagan has been in anarchy. The new regime reforms Burmese Buddhism, on Sri Lankan Theravada models.

  Europe

• February - Anti-Jewish riots break out in England.
• March 16 - A and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England, led by Richard Malebys, result in the deaths of 150–500 Jews in Clifford's Tower.
• July 4 - Richard I of England and Philip II of France, having met at Vézelay, set out from Marseille to join the Third Crusade.
• October 4 - Richard I of England threatens war against Tancred of Sicily, and captures Messina.
• Battle of Stara Zagora: The Bulgarians defeat Byzantine Emperor Isaac II.
• The Almohad caliph, Yaqub al-Mansur, fails to reconquer Silves, Portugal.
• Henry I becomes Duke of Brabant.

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Arts

• On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy, by Averroes, is first published.
• Speculum Virginum, a German manuscript, is published.

  Education

• The first known foreign scholar,, commences study at what will become the University of Oxford in England.

  Religion

• Cartmel Priory is founded in England.
• Stefan Nemanja founds the Studenica monastery in Serbia.