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 kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Komnenos dynasty ends.

• 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.

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

• 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

Births

• April 23—King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)

• Inge II of Norway (d. 1217)

• Gertrude of Merania, queen of Andrew II of Hungary (d. 1213)

Deaths

• April 25—Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)

• June 16—Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile, (b. c. 1140)

• July 18—Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala

• July 25—King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)

• September 12—Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1118)

• November 25—Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)

• December 6—King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)

• Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)

• Gillchreest MacCathmhaoil, Irish Head Chieftain of Cineal Fereadaidh, clan Aongus, clan Dubhinreacht, clan Fogarty O'Ceannfhoda, and clan Colla.

• Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)

• Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (b. 1160)

• Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (b. 1158)

• Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (b. 1152)

• Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier (b. c. 1105)