1165 - Events.
November 23 - Pope Alexander III enters Rome.
Emperor Rokujō ascends to the throne of Japan. He is one year old.
William I becomes King of Scotland.
Andronicus I escapes from prison.
Henry II of England begins affair with Rosamund Clifford.
Henry II of England invades Wales but is forced to retreat.
Moslems take Caesarea Philippi from Crusaders.
Leipzig gains city and market privileges.
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1223 - Events.
August 6 - Louis VIII is crowned King of France.
Franciscan Rule is approved by Pope Honorius III.
1223 - Births.
John FitzAlan, 6th Earl of Arundel (died 1267)
Baibars, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria (died 1277)
Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (died 1265)
1223 - Deaths.
March 8 - Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish bishop and historian (born 1161)
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The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity is the Anglican cathedral in the English city of Bristol and is commonly known as Bristol Cathedral.
Bristol Cathedral was founded as St Augustine's Abbey in 1140. The chapterhouse, still standing, dates from 1165, and the Elder Lady Chapel from 1220. The Norman abbey church was rebuilt from 1298 onwards, but the new church was still incomplete at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 and its nave was demolished. In 1542 the church was made the cathedral of a new Diocese of Bris ...
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 132 days remaining.
August 21 - Events.
1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1680 - Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
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The Armenian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. It might appear that the Armenian quarter would be a part of the Christian Quarter, since virtually all Armenians residing in Jerusalem are Christians, yet for historical reasons the Armenian quarter has remained separate and has not suffered the same disruptions as the other quarters over the last thousand years. Although the smallest of the four quarters, with the fewest residents, the Armenians and their patriarchate remain staunchly independent and pres ...
Changsha (Simplified: 长沙; Traditional: 長沙; Hanyu Pinyin: Chángshā; Wade-Giles: Chang-sha) is the capital of Hunan, a province of Southcentral China, located on the lower reaches of Xiangjiang river, a branch of the Yangtze River. It covers an area of 11,819 sq. kilometers and has a population of 6,017,600 (2003 population census).
Changsha - Administration.
Changsha has jurisdiction over five districts ...
The Ulaid or Ulaidh (singular Ulad or Uladh) were a Celtic people of Early Ireland who gave their name to the Irish Province of Ulster. They may appear in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as the Voluntii. Their capital was traditionally at Emain Macha near modern Armagh. Their territory at its height extended as far south as the River Boyne and as far west as County Leitrim, but by early Christian times they were pressed by the northern Uí Néill and they were reduced to eastern County Down, where they became kno ...
William I "the Lion" ( known in Gaelic as Uilliam Garm1 or William the Rough), (1142/1143 - December 4, 1214) reigned as King of Scotland from 1165 to 1214. His reign was the longest in Scottish history before the Act of Union with England in 1707. He became King following his brother Malcolm IV's death on 9 December 1165 and was crowned on 24 December 1165.
In contrast to his deeply religious, frail brother, William was powerfully-built, redheaded, and headstrong. He was an effective monarch whose reign was marred by his ill-fated ...
William I (d. May 7, 1166) was king of Sicily from 1154 to 1166.
He was the fourth son of Roger II and Elvira Alfonso of Castile, and grew up with little expectation of ruling. The deaths of his 3 older brothers between 1138 and 1148 changed matters, though when his father died William was still not well-prepared to take his place.
William's title "the Bad" seems little merited and expresses the bias of the historian Falcandus and the baronial class against the king and the official class by whom he was guided. It is obv ...
William of Tyre (c. 1130 - 1185) was archbishop of Tyre and an historian of the Crusades and the Middle Ages.
William of Tyre - Early life.
William was born in Jerusalem around 1130, one of the second generation of children born to the children of the original European Crusaders in the new Kingdom of Jerusalem. His parents were probably French or Italian in origin, possibly Normans from Sicily. He had a brother named Ralph who was probably a merchant in the kingdom, and the family was certainly non-noble. A ...
King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of legends known as the Matter of Britain. There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed. In the earliest mentions and in Welsh texts, he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer to him as a dux bellorum ("war leader"), and High Medieval Welsh texts often call him an ameraudur ("emperor"; the ...
Al-Idrisi (b.1100-d.1165 or 1166) full name Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi was an Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammad al-Idrisi was born in Sabtah, then belonging to the Almoravid Empire (nowadays Ceuta, Spain) and died in Sicily, or maybe in Sabtah.
In 1154 al-Idrisi made a large, south-oriented mappa mundi known as the Tabula Rogeriana and an accompanying book, named Geography. Taken together, they were named Nuzhat al-Mushtak by Roge ...
1197 - Events.
Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne as king of Jerusalem.
Theobald III becomes Count of Champagne.
The town of Arbroath, Angus, Scotland is consecrated, and dedicated to St Thomas Becket.
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 Angela, ...
1143 - Events.
Celestine II is elected pope.
October 5 - Portugal is recognized by the Kingdom of Leon as an independent kingdom although it had acted like one since the battle of June 24 of 1128
Robert of Ketton makes the first European translation of the Qur'an, into Latin
The exploration of the uncharted eastern parts of Germany begins and results in the founding of cities such as Lübeck
Baldwin III crowned King of Jerusalem, succeeding his father Fulk.
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1141 - Events.
February 2 - Battle of Lincoln. Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Empress Matilda wrest control of the English throne, from King Stephen.
September 14 - Rout of Winchester. Empress Matilda is forced to return the throne after Robert is captured by loyalist forces.
November - Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty signed the Treaty of Shaoxing and peace lasted for the next twenty years.
Italian winemaking company Ricasoli was founded
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1209 - Events.
Albigensian Crusade against Cathars (1209-1218)
the Franciscans are founded.
Cambridge University founded.
In August, Simon De Monfort, leader of Albigensian Crusade, takes over Carcassonne
Genghis Khan conquers Turkestan
1209 - Births.
January 5 - Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1272)
Hajji Bektash Wali, Turkish mystic (died 1271)
1209 - Deaths. Including:
1199 - Events.
King Richard I of England is killed at the siege of Châlus. His younger brother, John Lackland, becomes King of England.
1199 - Births.
Jeanne of Flanders (died 1244)
Isobel of Huntingdon (died 1251)
King Guttorm of Norway (died 1204)
1199 - Deaths.
January 23 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (born 1160)
February 9 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (born 1147)
Ap ...
1235 - Events.
Anglo-Norman invasion of Connacht
St. Elizabeth of Hungary died November 17, 1231, either from physical fatigue or from disease, only 24 years old, in Marburg. She was canonized by Pope Gregory IX in 1235.
1235 - Births.
Henry of Almain, King of the Romans (died 1271)
Pope Boniface VIII (approximate date; died 1303)
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales (died 1283)
Ramon Llull, Catalan writer and philosopher (d ...
Muhyi l-Din Muhammad b. 'Ali Ibn al-'Arabi, commonly known as either Ibn 'Arabi or Ibn Arabi, was born 1165 in Murcia, Spain and died 1240 in Damascus. Also known in the Islamic world as (al-shaykh al-akbar) “greatest master,” he his sometimes described as a mystical philosopher , even in his lifetime he was acknowledged to be one of the most important spiritual teachers ...
