Events

• Spring—In London, a popular uprising of the poor against the rich is led by William Fitz Osbern.

• According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reaches North America in what is present-day Alabama.

• Stefan Prvovencani becomes Grand Župan of Serbia.

• Water boards are created in the region of the present-day Netherlands, thereby being one of the oldest democratic entities still in existence in the world today.

• The general Ch'oe Ch'ung-hon takes control in Korea.

Births

• January 3—Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)

• Alice of Champagne, daughter of Henry II of Champagne and regent of Jerusalem (d. 1246)

Deaths

• August 15—Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)

• King Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1152)

• Tsar Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria

• William Fitz Osbern

• Vsevolod Svyatoslavich, Prince of Trubchevsk and Kursk