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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".

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