1170 To 11891170c - Hua is chief of Hana, in what is now the Hawaiian Islands.
x - Domingo de Guzman d.1221, a Spanish monk, founds the Dominicans, also called mendicants, for they abjured great abbeys and cloisters in favor of a life of simplicity and poverty.
x - Poems of Chretien de Troyes. u.1190
dec 03 - Archbishop Thomas a Becket b.c.1115-d.dec 29 1170 returns to England.
dec 29 - England Thomas a Becket b.c.1115, St. Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four of King Henry II's knights.
1171may 01 - Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies.
jun 09 - Jacob Ben Meir, Rabbenu Tam, French Tosofist, dies.
aug 11 - Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies.
nov 02 - Dionysius bar Salibi, author Diarbekir, dies.
1172x - Pope Alexander III decrees that Henry II of England is feudal lord of Ireland.
x - German monk Theodorich wrote Guide to the Holy Land.
mar 04 - Stephan III, King of Hungary r.1162-
1173x - Castille Benjamin of Tudela b.c.1127 publishes Travelling to Jerusalem, an account of his travels in Hebrew. The work is later translated to Latin and becomes an important descriptive work of the 12th Century.
x - The first stone of the Tower of Pisa was laid. It later became the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
feb 21 - Thomas a Becket is canonized by Pope Alexander III.
1174x - Sports The earliest known English horse races were held.
x - Saladin declares himself Sultan
x - Baldwin IV becomes king of Jerusalem. u.1185
may 15 - Nur ad-Din Mahmud, King of Syria, dies.
jul 12 - Henry II of England humbles himself to do public penance at the tomb of his former friend then enemy Thomas a Becket.
jul 13 - Scottish King William captured.
oct 12 - Saladin takes Damascus
dec 23 - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, is born.
1175x - Recognition of the Order of Santiago
1176x - Sophia, Countess of Holland, was buried in the German hospital in Jerusalem.
x - Giraldus Cambrensis Gerald of Wales was elected Bishop of St David's. Henry II refused to confirm his election and he withdrew to lecture at Paris.
may 22 - Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo.
may 29 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa defeated by the Lombard league of North Italian cities at the Battle of Legnano
nov 00 - Crusader army defeats Saladin at Mont Gisard
1177jan 13 - Hendrik Jasomirgott Babenberg, Duke of Austria, dies.
aug 01 - Peace Treaty of Venice between Emperor Frederick I and Pope Alexander III.
1178x - English raiders attacked the Irish town of Clonmacnoise but spared the churches.
may 27 - Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies.
jun 18 - 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on moon
jun 18 - Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno.
jun 25 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon.
jul 30 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy.
1179mar 05 - 3rd Lateran Council 11th Ecumenical council opens in Rome.
1180x - France A medical school is founded in Montpellier.
x - England The Assize of Arms brings extensive reforms in many facets of government.
apr 13 - Republic day of Gelnhausen.
aug 17 - Japan Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against emperor Kiyomori Taira.
1181aug 06 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
sep 01 - Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III u.nov 25 1185.
1183x - Saladin takes Aleppo
jun 15 - King Magnus of Norway was defeated by his rival, Sverre.
1184x - Great fire ravages Glastonbury Abbey destroying Old Church.
1185x - Baldwin V, King of Jerusalemu.1186
x - The Kamakura Period of Japan. u.1333
x - Giraldus Cambrensis Gerald of Wales accompanied Prince John to Ireland.
apr 25 - Sea battle at Dan-no-ura: Minamoto Yoritomo beats Taira-family.
nov 25 - Umberto Crivelli replaces Lucius III as Pope Urban III.
1186x - Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem u.1194
x - Cambodia The temple monastery of Ta Prohm at Angkor was consecrated. Inscriptions say that 79,365 servants were required to for its upkeep. It was paid by funds from over 3,000 villages.
1187may 01 - Hospitallers and Templars defeated by the Muslims at Nazareth
jul 04 - Battle of Hittin Tiberias. Hospitallers, Templars, and the "flower of the nobility" are devastated. Saladin, from his imperial seat in ancient Syria, defeats Reinoud of Ch'tillon and the Christian armies of the Crusaders and took most of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
jul 04 - Battle of Hittin Tiberias.Hospitallers, Templars, and the "flower of the nobility" are devastated. Saladin defeats Reinoud of Ch'tillon and the Christian armies of the Crusaders and took most of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
sep 29 - Saladins army marches into Jerusalem.
oct 04 - Jerusalem surrendered to Saladin. Jewish settlement renewed.
1188x - Giraldus Cambrensis Gerald of Wales travels through Wales to recruit soldiers for the Third Crusade, and wrote up his observations in the Itinerarium Cambriae Itinerary of Wales in 1191.
1189c - Giraldus Cambrensis authored Expugnatio Hibernica History of the Conquest of Ireland.
x - The first lord mayor was elected in London.
jan 21 - Philip Augustus, Henry II of England and Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa assembled the troops for the Third Crusade.
feb 06 - Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England.
may 11 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa & 100,000 crusaders depart Regensburg.
may 21 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa left Europe on the Third Crusade.
sep 03 - Jacob of Orleans, Rabbi, killed in anti Jewish riot in London England.
sep 03 - England England's King Richard I crowned in Westminster.30 Jews are mnassacred at the coronation.
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