Events

• Anti-Jewish riots break out in England.

• March 16—A massacre 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.

• June 10—Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.

• October 4—Richard I of England threatens war against Tancred of Sicily, and captures Messina.

• The Teutonic Knights are founded to defend the Holy Land.

• Battle of Stara Zagora: The Bulgarians defeat Byzantine Emperor Isaac II.

• On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (ar. Kitab fasl al-maqal) is first published.

• 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.

• Henry I becomes Duke of Brabant.

• Richard I of England and Philip II of France meet at Vézelay, beginning the Third Crusade.

• Stevan Nemanja founds the Studenica monastery in Serbia.

• The feudal era of Japan begins.

• Cartmel Priory is founded in England.

• Speculum Virginum, a German manuscript, is published (approximate date).

Births

• Vincent of Beauvais, Dominican friar and encyclopedist (d. 1264)

• Peter I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1251)

• William III of Sicily (d. 1198)

• William of Sherwood, English logician (d. 1249)

Deaths

• March 15 – Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of Philip II of France (b. 1170)

• June 10—Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, (drowned) (b. 1122)

• July 25—Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem (b. c. 1160)

• Ranulf de Glanvill, chief justiciar of England

• Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester