Events

• May 23—Lothair of Saxony becomes Holy Roman Emperor on the death of Henry V.

• June 11—Battle of Azaz: The Crusaders defeat the Seljuk Turks.

• War ends between Toulouse and Provence.

• Nassau Castle is built.

• Albert of Aix begins his Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis.

• Magnus the Strong becomes ruler of Sweden.

• The Venetians pillage Rhodes, ravage Samos and Lesbos, and occupy Chios.

• A collection of Zen Buddhist koans is compiled in the Chinese Blue Cliff Record.

• Reading School Founded.

Births

• Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (d. 1194)

• Lu You, Chinese poet (d. 1210)

Deaths

• January 24—King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)

• April 12—Vladislav I of Bohemia

• May 19—Vladimir Monomakh, Grand Duke of Kiev

• May 23—Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)

• October 21—Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian chronicler

• Eustace III of Boulogne

• Ingold II, ruler of Sweden (b. 1105)

• Irnerius, teacher at Bologna