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Asia

• Temujin of Khamag Mongol defeats the Jurchens of the Jin dynasty. Muqali's father Gü'ün U'a gives him and his brother to Temujin as personal hereditary slaves.
• Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne, as King of Jerusalem.

  Europe

• Theobald III becomes Count of Champagne.
• Kaloyan becomes Tsar of Bulgaria.
• Corfu is occupied by the Genoese.
• Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, negotiates a peace with Wales.
• North Crawley is split into Great Crawley and Little Crawley.
• Philip of Swabia marries Irene Angelina, daughter of Byzantine emperor Isaac II.
• Danish king Knud raids area of present day Estonia.
• Saracen pirates, from the Balearic Islands, raid the city of Toulon in Provence, and the Benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat, on the Lérins Islands.

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Religion

• Arbroath Abbey is consecrated, and dedicated to St. Thomas Becket.