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1100                        Bronze Doors of the Church of S. Zeno, Verona

                                Earliest examples of stone mosques on East African coast

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                William Rufus assassinated - Henry I succeeds him

                                Peter Abelard goes to Paris to study under William of Champeaux

                                Polynesian islands colonization begins

                                Timbuktu founded

                                Rule of Zagwe dynasty in Ethiopia (-16th century)

                                William II (Rufus) -              (England)                                               King

                                Henry I +                               (England)                                               son of William the Conqueror

                                Bretislav II -                          (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Borivoj II +                            (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Godfrey of Bouillon -           (Jerusalem)                                            (1099-)    1st King

                                Baldwin I of Bouillon +       (Jerusalem) (Tripoli)                             (-1118) Count 2nd (b. Godfrey of Boullion)

                                Bohemund of Otranto +      (Antioch)                                               Prince

                                Clement III - (antipope)         (Patriarchate of Rome)                       (1080-1100)    aka Guibert of Vienna

                                Theodoric +- (antipope)       (Patriarchate of Rome)                      *****

                                Guibert of Vienna                                                                 ????-1100              Roman Antipope (Clement III) (Parma)

                                Beginning of St. Martial organum

                                Geoffry of Monmouth                                                         1100-1154

                                Lombard, Peter                                                                     1100-1160

                                Wace                                                                                      1100-1175

1101                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Hui-tsung +

1102                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Ladislaus I Herman -            (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty

                                Boleslaus III +                      (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty (the Wrymouth) (-1138)

                                Albert (antipope)  +-             (Patriarchate of Rome)                     

1103                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Eric I -                                     (Denmark)                                              the Evergood

                                Niels the Elder +                   (Denmark)

                                Magnus II Barefoot -           (Norway)

                                Eystein I +                             (Norway)

                                Sigurd I the Crusader +       (Norway)

1104                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Crusaders capture Acre

                                Barkiarok -                             (Seljuk Empire)

                                Mohammed +                        (Seljuk Empire)

                                Pedro I -                                 (Aragon)

                                Alfonso I +                            (Aragon)

1105                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Henry IV -                              (Holy Roman Empire)                          (1056-)

                                Henry V +                              (Holy Roman Empire)                          (-1125)    Emperor

                                Sylvester IV (antipope) +    (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Isaac, Joseph ben                                                                1105-1170

                                ben Isaac of Troyes, Solomon (Rashi)                             1040-1105               Jewish Scholar

1106                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I defeats his brother Robert, Duke of Normandy - Robert captive for life (9/28)

1107                        Stirling Castle construction begins by Alexander I

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Edgar -                                   (Scotland)                                              son of Malcome III Canmore

                                Alexander I +                        (Scotland)                                              King (younger brother of Edgar)

                                Yousouf bin Teshonfin -    (Almoravide Sultanate)

                                Ali bin Yousouf +                (Almoravide Sultanate)

                                Borivoj II -                             (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Swartopluk +                         (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Boleslaus II -                         (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty (the Wrymouth)

                                Boleslaus III +                      (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty (the Wrymouth)

1108                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Philip I -                                 (France)                                                 King

                                Louis VI le Gros +                (France)                                                 (-1137)    King

1109                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                War between England and France (1109-1113)

                                Alfonso VI -                          (Leon)(Castile)                                      (1065-)(1072-)        (s. Ferdinand I)

                                Urraca +                                 (Leon)(Castile)                                      Alfonso I's wife

                                Swartopluk -                          (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Ladislas I +                            (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Anselm of Cantebury                                                          1033-1109

1110                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Filip -                                      (Sweden)                                               House of Stenkil (Halstensson) joint ruler

                                John of Salisbury                                                                 1110-1160

1111                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                HRE Henry V forces Pope Paschal II to acknowledge power of the emperor

                                Robert II -                              (Flanders)                                              Count 

                                Baldwin VII +                        (Flanders)                                              Count 

                                Sylvester IV (antipope) -      (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Al Gazali                                                                                1058-1111               Mystic/Theologian

1112                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Peter Abelard begins teaching at Mont Ste Genevieve, just outside of Paris

                                Henry -                                   (Portugal)                                              House of Burgundy (Grandson of Robert I)

                                Theresa +                              (Portugal)                                              House of Burgundy (regent)

1113                        Angkor Wat construction begins during Suryavarman's reign

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Order of St. John formally acknowledged by the papacy

                                Suryavarman II +                  (Khmer Empire)                                     Cambodia

                                Sviatopolk -                           (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

                                Vladimir Monomachus +     (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke (Monomakh) (-1125)

1114                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Matilda (Maud) daughter of Henry I of England marries HRE Henry V

                                Bhaskara, Acarya                                                                 1114-1185

1115                        St. Pierre Abbey construction at Moissac, Langudoc (1115-1130)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Bernard founds the Abbey of Clairvaux and becomes its first abbot

                                JIN +

1116                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Mohammed -                         (Seljuk Empire)

                                Sandjar +                               (Seljuk Empire)

                                Salomon -                              (Hungary)                                              King  (Coleman Beauclerc)

                                Stephen II +                          (Hungary)                                              King 

1117                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

1118                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Alfonso I captures Saragossa from Moors

                                Alexius I Comnenus -          (Byzantine Empire)                               (1081-1143)    1st Comnenus Emperor

                                John II Calojohannes +       (Byzantine Empire)                               (1118-1143)    2nd Comnenus Emperor

                                Baldwin I of Bouillon -        (Jerusalem) (Tripoli)                            (1100-1118)    2nd King (b. Godfrey of Boullion)

                                Baldwin II +                           (Jerusalem)                                            (1118-1131)    3rd King

                                al-Mustazhir -                       (Abbasid Caliphate)                              (1094-1118)    28th Abbasid Caliph

                                al-Mustarshid +                    (Abbasid Caliphate)                              (1118-1135)    29th Abbasid Caliph

                                Paschal II -                             (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Gelasius II +                          (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Gregory VIII (antipope) +    (Patriarchate of Rome)

1119                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Hughes de Payens founds the Order of Knights Templars (1118/1128)

                                Baldwin VII -                         (Flanders)                                              Count 

                                Charles the Good +              (Flanders)                                              Count 

                                Gelasius II -                          (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Calixtus II +                          (Patriarchate of Rome)

1120                        Eve from St. Lazare, autun (Gislebertus)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                White Ship disaster - William, heir of Henry I of England, is drowned in wreck

                                Alfonso I captures Calatayud from Moors

                                Peter Abelard leaves Saint Denis monastery to teach

                                Premonstratensian Order founded (canons-regular)

                                Roscelin                                                                                 1045-1120

1121                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Council of Soissons - Abelard’s work burned

                                Floris II the Fat -                   (Holland)                                               Count

                                Dirk VI +                                (Holland)                                               Count

                                Gregory VIII (antipope) -      (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Champeaux, William of                                                        1070-1121

1122                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                Concordat of Worms - compromise between pope and emperor on investiture of bishops (9/23)

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                                Battle of Beroia - Byzantine army under John II Comnenos decisively defeats Pecheneg army in Bulgaria

                                Eystein I -                              (Norway)

                                Khayyam, Omar                                                                    1050-1122               Poet/Astronomer (Persia) (1123)

1123                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

1124                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                Alexander I -                         (Scotland)                                              King (younger brother of Edgar)

                                David I +                                (Scotland)                                              King (younger brother of Alexander I)

                                Calixtus II -                           (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Honorius II +                       (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Celestine II (antipope) +-    (Patriarchate of Rome)

1125                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR +   (1125-1135)

                                LIAO -                                                                    (916-)

                                Liao Empire destroyed by the Jurchen of the Jin Dynasty

                                Xi Liao Dynasty (Kara Khitan Khanate) established by remnants of Liao (-1220)

                                Henry V -                               (Holy Roman Empire)                          (1105-)    Emperor

                                Lothair II +                            (Holy Roman Empire)                          (1125-1137)            Emperor(of Saxony)(Guelph)

                                Ladislas I -                             (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Sobijslaw +                            (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Vladimir Monomachus -      (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke  (Monomakh)

                                Mstislav +                             (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

1126                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                Kaifeng overrun by Tatars

                                Hui-tsung  -  

                                Urraca -                                  (Leon & Castile)

                                Alfonso VII +                        (Leon & Castile)                                   the Emperor

                                Averroes, Mohammed Ibn Rashid                                    1126-1198               Philosopher

1127                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                Jinkang Incident - Jurchen sodiers of the Jin Dynasty sack Bianliang - Emperor Qinzong captured (1)

                                Qinzong and his father Huizong are demoted to rank of commoner by the Jin Dynasty (3/20)

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                                Zangi, a Seljuk officer, captures Mosul - beginning of the Muslim reaction against Crusaders

                                Southern Song Dynasty begins in China

                                Charles the Good -               (Flanders)                                              Count 

                                William Clito +                      (Flanders)                                              Count  (from Normandy)

                                Guillaume IX d’Aquitaine                                                   1071-1127

1128                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                Geoffrey the Handsome, Count of Anjou (Plantagentet),  marries Matilda (Maud) -  daughter of Henry I

                                Battle of Sao Mamde - Alfonso I defeats his mother Teresa of Leon in step toward independence (6/24)

                                William Clito -                       (Flanders)                                              Count  (from Normandy)

                                Dirk +                                     (Flanders)                                              Count  (from Alsace)

                                Alfonso I Henriques +        (Portugal)                                              House of Burgundy (Count)

1129                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                Emperor Shirakawa dies- Toba becomes a "cloistered emperor"  (7/24)

                                Shirakawa -                            (Japan)                                                   73rd Emperor

1130                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) +   (1130-1240)

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                Roger II is crowned King of Sicily (12/30)

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                                Almohad Dynasty in Morocco founded by preacher Ibn Tumart (-1169)

                                Inge the Younger -               (Sweden)                                               House of Stenkil (Halstensson)

                                Sverker the Elder +               (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik

                                Sigurd I the Crusader -        (Norway)

                                Magnus III the Blind +        (Norway)

                                Harold IV Gilchrist +            (Norway)

                                Honorius II -                          (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Innocent II +                          (Patriarchate of Rome)                             (1130-1143)

                                Anacletus II (antipope) +

                                Joachim of Fiore                                                                   1130-1202               Churchman/Intellectual

                                Chu Hsi (Xhu Xi)                                                                  1130-1200               Philosopher (Sung China)

                                T’ang, Li                                                                                1050-1130

1131                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Stephen II -                           (Hungary)                                              King  (abdicated)

                                Bela II +                                 (Hungary)                                              (1131-) King 

                                Baldwin II -                            (Jerusalem)                                            (1118-) 3rd King

                                Fulk of Anjou +                    (Jerusalem)                                            (1131-1143)            4th King

                                Manasollasa                                                    Somesvara                manuscript on Ragas (e.g. Shuddha Todi)

1132                        Capella Palatina, Palermo construction begins (1132-1140)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Mstislav -                              (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

                                Yaropolk II +                         (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke 

                                Hugh of Grenoble (St.)                                                        1052-1132

1133                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Hugh becomes head of St. Victor monastery school

                                Henry II of Anjou                                                                                1133-1189               King

1134                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR ...   (1125-1135)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Niels the Elder -                    (Denmark)

                                Eric II +                                  (Denmark)                                              Emune

                                Garcia Ramirez IV +              (Navarre)

                                Alfonso I -                             (Aragon)

                                Ramiro II +                             (Aragon)                                                the Monk

1135                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                SUPPLINBURG-HOHENSTAUFEN CIVIL WAR -   (1125-1135)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) +   (1135-1154)                  English Civil War

                                Byland Abbey is founded in North Yorkshire (1)

                                Battle of Bergen - Harold IV Gilchrist defeats Magnus IV's army - he is captured, dethroned, & blinded (1/7)

                                Henry I dies, England plunges into civil war (12/1)

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                                Stephen of Boulougne seizes the English crown on death of Henry I

                                "Year of Pacification" in Germany - general peace proclaimed

                                Conrad III acknowledges Lothair as Emperor

                                Lin-an capital of Southern Sung

                                Alfonso VII is crowned Emperor of Spain in León

                                Magnus IV the Blind -         (Norway)                                               (1130-1135)            King

                                Harold IV Gilchrist ...           (Norway)                                               (1130-1136)            King

                                Sverker I the Elder ...            (Sweden)                                               (1130-1156)            H. Sverker and Erik

                                Eric II ...                  (Denmark)                                              (1134-1137)            Emune

                                Henry I -                                (England)(Normandy)                         (1100-1135)            s. William the Conqueror

                                Stephen +                              (England)(Normandy)                         (1135-1154)            House of Blois

                                Alfonso VII ...                       (León)(Castile)                                      (1126-1157)            H. Burgundy

                                Ramon Berenguer IV...        (Barcelona)                                            (1131-1162)           

                                Ramiro II ...                            (Aragon)                                                (1134-1137)            the Monk

                                Garcia IV ...                            (Navarre)                                               (1134-1150)            The Restorer (Ramirez)

                                Alfonso I ...                           (Portugal)                                              (1129-1185)            Prince (King 1139-)

                                Ali ibn Yusuf ...                    (Almoravid Dynasty)Sunni                (1106-1142)            Emir

                                Louis VI le Gros    ...             (France)                                                 (1108-1137)            King (Capet)

                                Geoffrey V ...                         (Maine)(Anjou)                                    (1126-1151)(1129-) Count (Plantagenet)

                                William X ...                           (Aquitaine)                                            (1126-1137)            Duke

                                Simon I ...                               (Upper Lorraine)                                   (1115-1138)            Duke

                                Waleran ...                             (Lower Lorraine)                                   (1125-1139)            Duke

                                Lothair (III)II ...                     (Saxony)(Germany)(HRE)                   (1106-1137)(1125-1137)        (Supplinburg)(Welf)

                                Emicho von Leiningen ...    (Bishopric of Würzburg)                     (1125-1146)            Bishop

                                Henry X ...                             (Bavaria)                                                (1126-1139)            Duke

                                Frederick II ...                        (Swabia)                                 (1105-1147)            Duke (Hohenstaufen)

                                Leopold III ...                        (Austria)                                                (1095-1136)            Margrave (Babenberg)

                                Boleslaus III ...                      (Polish Kingdom)                                 (1102-1138)            Piast Dynasty (the Wrymouth)

                                Sobeslav I Odrich ...            (Bohemia)                                              (1125-1140)            Duke

                                Bela II +                                 (Hungary)(Croatia)                              (1131-1141)            King  (Arpad)

                                ???????????                          (Genoa)                                                  (????-????)            Consul Committee

                                Pietro Polani ...                      (Venice)                                                 (1130-1148)            Doge

                                Engelbert +                            (Tuscany)                                              (1135-1137)            Margrave

                                Innocent II ...                        (Patriarchate of Rome)                         (1130-1143)            Gregorio Papareschi

                                Anacletus II ...                      (Patriarchate of Rome)                         (1131-1138)            antipope (Pietro Pierleoni)

                                Robert II ...                            (Capua)                                                  (1127-1156)            Prince

                                Sergius VII ...                        (Naples)                                                 (1120-1137)            39th (last) Duke

                                Roger II ...                              (Kingdom of Sicily)                              (1130-1154)            King                                      

                                Yaropolk II ...                        (Kiev)                                                     (1132-1138)            Grand Prince (Vladimirovich)

                                John II Komnenos ...           (Byzantine Empire)                               (1118-1143)            Emperor

                                Fulk of Anjou ...                   (Jerusalem)                                            (1131-1143)            4th King

                                al-Mustarshid -                     (Abbasid Caliphate)                            (1118-1135)            29th Abbasid Caliph

                                al-Rashid +                            (Abbasid Caliphate)Sunni                 (1135-1136)            30th Abbasid Caliph

                                Ahmed Sanjar ...                   (Seljuk Empire)Sunni                           (1118-1153)            Sultan

                                Al-Hafiz ...                             (Fatimid Caliphate)Shi'a                      (1130-1149)            11th Caliph

                                Bahram Shah ...                     (Ghaznavid Empire)Sunni                   (1118-1152)            Yamin ud Dawlah

                                Vikrama Chola -    (Chalukya Chola Empire)Hindu                     (1118-1135)

                                Kulothunga Chola II ...+     (Chola Empire)                                      (1133-1150)

                                Somesvara III ...                    (Western Chalukya Empire)               (1126-1138)            King

                                Maaravaramban Seervallaban ... (Pandyan Kingdom)                   (1132-1161)                           

                                Vishnuvardhana ...               (Hoysala Empire)                                  (1108-1152)            King

                                ?????????????                      (Kara-Khanid Khanate)                       (????-????)            Khan (Turkic)      

                                Yelü Dashi ...                         (Kara-Khitan Khanate)                        (1124-1144)            Khan (Western Liao Dynasty)

                                Chongzong ...                       (Tangut Empire)                                   (1086-1139)            Emperor (Western Xia)

                                Taizong -                               (Jin DynastyChina)                              (1123-1135)            Emperor (Jurchen)

                                Xizong +                                (Jin DynastyChina)                              (1135-1149)            Emperor (Jurchen)

                                Gaozong ...                            (Southern Song China)                       (1127-1162)            10th Emperor (1st Southern)

                                Alaungsithu                          (Pagan Kingdom)(1st Burmese E.)    (1113-1167)            King

                                Suryavarman ...                     (Khmer Empire)                                     (1113-1150)            Emperor

                                Than Tong                            (Dai Viet)                                               (1128-1138)            King (Ly Dynasty)

                                Leonin                                                                                    1135-1201 (1163-1190?)

                                Maimonides, Moses                                                            1135-1204

1136                        Historia Regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of Monmouth)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Welsh win a victory over the Norman forces between towns of Loughor and Swansea - killing 500 (1/1)

                                Battle of Crug Mawr - Owain Gwynedd defeats the Normans (10)

                                al-Rashid -                             (Abbasid Caliphate)                            (1135-)    30th Abbasid Caliph

                                al-Muqtafi +                          (Abbasid Caliphate)                            (-1160)    31st Abbasid Caliph

                                Leopold III -                          (Austria)                                                Margrave the Pious (patron saint)

                                Leopold IV +                         (Austria)                                                Margrave

                                Harold IV Gilchrist -             (Norway)

                                Inge I +                                  (Norway)                                               (-1161)

                                Sigurd II Mund +                 (Norway)                                               (-1161)

1137                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Lothair III (II) HRE dies while crossing the Alps - coming North from camapign against Roger II of Sicily (12)

                                Eric II -                                   (Denmark)                                              Emune

                                Eric III +                                 (Denmark)                                              Lam

                                Louis VI le Gros -                 (France)                                                 (1108-)    King

                                Louis VII +                             (France)                                                 (-1180)    King

                                Lothair II -                             (Holy Roman Empire)                          (1125-)    Emperor (of Saxony)

                                Ramiro II -                              (Aragon)                                                the Monk

                                Petronilla +                            (Aragon)

                                Saladin                                                                                   1137-1193     Ayyubid Sultan (Mesopotamia/Kurdish)

                                Ramanuja                                                                               1017-1137

1138                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Battle of the Standard - David I of Scotland fighting on behalf of Matilda is defeated in English civil war

                                Hohenstaufen House rules Germany (-1268)

                                Feudal disintegration period in Poland (Dukes ruling in Cracow) (-1305)

                                Conrad III +                           (Holy Roman Empire)                          Hohenstaufen Dynasty (1st) (Ghibelline)

                                Boleslaus III -                       (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty (the Wrymouth)

                                Ladislaus II the Exile +        (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty

                                Anacletus II (antipope) -      (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Victor IV (antipope) +-         (Patriarchate of Rome)

1139                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Matilda lands in England

                                Second Lateran Council - ends schism in Church following illegal election of Anacletus II

                                Yaropolk -                              (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

                                Vsevolod +                            (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

                                Hsiang Shan Lu                                                                    1139-1192

1140                        Moses expounding the Law of Unclean beasts (Bury Bible)

                                Bury Bible (England)

                                St. Denis Ambulatory rebuilt, ushers in Gothic Era (Suger)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER)...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Council of Sens - Abelard condemned

                                Portugal becomes an independent monarchy

                                Sobijslaw -                             (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Ladislas II +                          (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Vladimir II +                           (Poland)                                                 (-1173) (same as Ladislaus II?)

                                Hugh of Lincoln                                                                   1140-1200

                                Nizami                                                                                    1140-1203               Poet (Persia)

                                Ventadorn, Bernart de                                                         1140-1190               Musician

                                Ha-Levi, Judah                                                                     1080-1140

1141                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Battle of Lincoln - Matilda captures Stephen and rules badly as queen  - people rebel and Stephen is restored

                                Peace between China and Chin

                                Leopold IV -                          (Austria)                                                Margrave

                                Henry II +                              (Austria)                                                Margrave

                                Bela II -                                  (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Geza II +                                (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Theresa -                               (Portugal)                                              House of Burgundy (regent)

                                Hugh of St. Victor                                                                1096-1141               Poet (1075-1141)

1142                        King Roger of Sicily crowned (Capella Mantorana, Palermo)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Alexius II, son of John II Komnenos dies of "head fever" on campaign in Attalia (8/2)

                                 Eystein II +                            (Norway)

                                Abelard, Peter                                                                       1079-1142               Churchman (Nantes, France)

1143                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                John II Komnenos dies by accidentaly cutting himself with a poison-tipped arrow while hunting (4/8)             

                                Alfonso becomes king of Portugal (Alfonso I) (1143-1185)

                                Lusitania changes its name to Portucale (Portugal)

                                John II Calojohannes -        (Byzantine Empire)                               (1118-1143)    Comnenus

                                Manuel I +                             (Byzantine Empire)                               (1143-1180)    Comnenus

                                Fulk of Anjou -                     (Jerusalem)                                            (1131-1143)    4th King

                                Baldwin III +                         (Jerusalem)                                            (1143-1162)    5th King

                                Innocent II -                           (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Celestine II +                        (Patriarchate of Rome)

1144                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Death of William of Norwich - beginning of medieval blood accusation

                                Geoffrei IV Count of Anjou completes conquest of Normandy

                                Ali bin Yousouf -                 (Almoravide Sultanate)

                                Teshoufin bin Ali +             (Almoravide Sultanate)

                                Celestine II -                        (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Lucius II +                             (Patriarchate of Rome)

1145                        Chartres Cathedral construction begins

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                SECOND CRUSADE +   (1145-1149)

                                Almohads begin conquest of Moorish Spain (-1150)

                                Lucius II -                          (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Eugune III +                      (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                William of Conches                                                             1080-1145

1146                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                SECOND CRUSADE ...   (1145-1149)

                                Eric III -                                  (Denmark)                                              Lam

                                Sweyn III +                            (Denmark)                                              Grade

                                Vsevolod -                             (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

                                Izhaslav +                              (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

                                Ladislaus II the Exile -         (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty

                                Boleslaus IV the Curly +     (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty

1147                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                SECOND CRUSADE ...   (1145-1149)

                                Portuguese take Lisbon establish frontier on the Tagus

                                Almohads overthrow Almoravids

                                Almohade conquest of Spain (-1148)

                                Second Crusade - St Bernard of Clairvaux appeals for another campaign (-1149)

                                Teshoufin bin Ali +             (Almoravide Sultanate)

                                Abd el-Moulmin +               (Almohade Sultanate)

1148                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                SECOND CRUSADE ...   (1145-1149)

                                Matilda leaves England for the last time

                                Crusaders fail to capture Damascus

1149                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                SECOND CRUSADE -   (1145-1149)

1150                        Winchester Bible (illustrated) (1150-1160)

                                Sens Cathedral construction begins

                                Senlis Cathedral construction begins

                                Noyen Cathedral construction begins

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Rise of universities throughout Europe - High point of Scholasticism

                                Garcia Ramirez IV -               (Navarre)

                                Sancho V +                            (Navarre)                                               the Wise

                                Suryavarman II -                   (Khmer Empire)                                     Cambodia

                                Erik IX +                                (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik (Jedvarsson) Saint

                                School of St. Martial

                                Troubadours flourish in Provence

                                Notre Dame School assumes musical leadership

                                Liturgical dramas appear

1151                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                End of Toltec Empire in Mexico

                                Geoffrey of Anjou                                                                       -1151

                                Suger                                                                                      1081-1151

1152                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Marriage of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine anulled on grounds of blood relationship

                                Henry II of Anjou  marries Eleanor of Aquitaine            - Aquitaine/Normandy/Anjou

                                Conrad III -                            (Holy Roman Empire)                          (1138-)    Hohenstaufen  (1st) (Ghibelline)

                                Frederick I Barbarossa +     (Holy Roman Empire)                          (-1190)    Hohenstaufen Dynasty (2nd)

                                Raymond of Toulouse +     (Tripoli)                                                  (-1187) Count

1153                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) ...   (1135-1154)                 English Civil War

                                Henry II of Anjou invades England and forces Stephen to make him heir to the English throne

                                David I -                                  (Scotland)

                                Malcolm IV the Maiden +   (Scotland)                                              grandson of David I

                                Eugune III -                          (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Anastasius IV +                   (Patriarchate of Rome)                          (1153-1154)

                                Anna Comnena                                                                    1083-1153               Byzantine Princess/Biographer

                                Bernard of Clairvaux                                                            1090-1153               Churchman

1154                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THE ANARCHY (NINETEEN YEARS WINTER) -   (1135-1154)                   English Civil War

                                Angevine House in England

                                Stephen -                               (England)                                               (1135-)

                                Henry II Plantagenet +        (England)                                               (-1189)    of Anjou

                                Izhaslav -                               (Kiev)                                                     Grand Duke

                                Yuri Dolgoruki +                 (Vladimir)                                               Grand Duke

                                Anastasius IV -                    (Patriarchate of Rome)                         (1153-1154)

                                Adrian IV +                           (Patriarchate of Rome)                         (1154-1159)     Nicholas Breakspear (only english Pope)

                                Constance                                                                             1154-1198               Empress (HRE)

                                De La Porree, Gilbert                                                            1076-1154

                                Geoffry of Monmouth                                                         1100-1154

1155                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Henry II appoints archdeacon of Cantebury Thomas a Becket as Chancellor

                                Adrian IV grants Henry II the right to rule Ireland

                                English plan for the conquest of Ireland is approved

                                Alfonso VIII                                                                          1155-1214               King of Castile

1156                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                HOGEN REBELLION +-   (1156)               Japanese Civil War

                                Privilegium Minus - issued by HRE Frederick I - elevates the Margraviateof Austria to a Duchy (9/17)

                                Civil wars begin in Japan (-1185)

                                Henry II -                               (Austria)                                                Margrave

                                Henry II +                              (Austria)                                                (-1177)    Duke

                                Sverker the Elder -                (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik

1157                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Seljuk Empire crumbles

                                Sandjar -                                (Seljuk Empire)

                                Sweyn III -                             (Denmark)                                              Grade

                                Knud III +-                            (Denmark)                                              Magnussen

                                Valdemar I +                          (Denmark)

                                Alfonso VII -                         (Leon & Castile)                                   the Emperor

                                Ferdinand II +                       (Leon)

                                Sancho III +                          (Castile)                                                 (-1158)

                                Yuri Dolgoruki -                    (Vladimir)                                               Grand Duke

                                Andrey Bogolyubski +       (Vladimir/Suzdal)                  (-1174)    Grand Duke

                                Dirk -                                      (Flanders)                                              Count  (from Alsace)

                                Philip I +                                (Flanders)                                              (-1191)    Count 

                                Eystein II -                             (Norway)

                                Dirk VI -                                (Holland)                                               Count

                                Floris III +                              (Holland)                                               Count

                                Richard Coer de Lion                                                           1157-1199

1158                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Vladislaus II becomes second King of Bohemia (1/11)

                                Emperor Nijo begins rule in Japan (9/5)

                                Eleanore of Aquitaine arrives in Salisbury, Wiltshire on royal business (11/29)

                                Japanese Emperor Go-Shirakawa begins his cloistered rule

                                British pound sterling introduced

                                Sancho III -                           (Castile)                                                 (1157-)

                                Alfonso VIII +                      (Castile)                                                 (-1214)    King

                                Ladislas II -                           (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  Duke

                                Ladislas II +                          (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  King

                                Nijo +                                     (Japan)                                                   (-1165)    78th Emperor 

1159                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                HEIJI REBELLION +-   (1159)

                                Henry II levies scutage - payment in cash instead of military service

                                Manuel I enters Antioch

                                Burning of the Sanjo Palace by the Minamoto forces - critical battle in the Minamato-Taira civil war

                                Adrian IV -                          (Patriarchate of Rome)                                                                  (1154-1159)

                                Alexander III +                    (Patriarchate of Rome)                                                                  (1159-1181)

                                Victor IV (antipope) +        (Patriarchate of Rome)

1160                        The Stavelot Altar (1160-1165)

                                Jamb figures from the Royal Portal (Chartres Cathedral)

                                Laon Cathedral construction begins (-1205)

                                St. Gilles du Gard Abbey construction in Provence (-1170)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Erik IX -                  (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik (Jedvarsson) Saint

                                Magnus Henriksson +        (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik

                                al-Muqtafi -                           (Abbasid               Caliphate)             (1136-)    31st Abbasid Caliph

                                al-Mustanjid +                      (Abbasid               Caliphate)             (-1170)    32nd Abbasid Caliph

                                Kimhi, David (Redak)                                                          1160-1235

                                Bodel, Jehan                                                                         1160-

                                Perotin                                                                                   1160-1205 (1160-1238?)

                                John of Salisbury                                                                 1110-1160

                                Lombard, Peter                                                                     1100-1160

1161                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Battle of Ts'ai-shih - explosives used in China

                                Geza II -                 (Hungary)                                             King 

                                Stephen III +                         (Hungary)                                             King  (the Lightning)

                                Magnus Henriksson -        (Sweden)                                                House of Sverker and Erik

                                Charles VII +                       (Sweden)                                                House of Sverker and Erik (Karl Sverkersson)

                                Inge I -                                   (Norway)                                                (1136-)

                                Sigurd II Mund -  (Norway)                                                (1136-)

                                Haakon II +                           (Norway)

1162                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Thomas s Becket is appointed Archbishop of Cantebury and quarrels with Henry II over Church rights

                                Petronilla -                           (Aragon)

                                Alfonso II +                           (Aragon)

                                Stephen III -                          (Hungary)                                             King  (the Lightning)

                                Ladislaus II +                       (Hungary)                                             King 

                                Haakon II -                            (Norway)

                                Baldwin III -                          (Jerusalem)                                          (1143-)   5th King

                                Amalric I +                           (Jerusalem)                                          (-1174)   6th King

1163                        Notre Dame Cathedral cornerstone laid by Pope Alexander III

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Emperor Frederick I destroys Milan

                                Abd el-Moulmin -                 (Almohade Sultanate)

                                Yousouf abou Yacoub +       (Almohade Sultanate)                         (-1178)

                                Ladislaus II -                         (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Stephen IV +                         (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Magnus IV +                         (Norway)

                                Ars Antiqua

1164                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Constitutions of Clarendon - restatement of laws governing trial of ecclesiastics in England

                                Thomas a Becket flees to France

                                Victor IV (antipope) -            (Patriarchate of Rome)        

                                Paschal III (antipope) +       (Patriarchate of Rome)  

                                Heloise

1165                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Malcolm IV the Maiden -    (Scotland)                                              grandson of David I

                                William the Lion +                (Scotland)                                              King (younger brother of Malcolm IV)

                                Stephen IV -                          (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Philip II Augustus                                                               1165-1223               King of France

1166                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

1167                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Albigensian Council at Toulouse

                                Amalric king of Jerusalem captures Cairo

                                Oxford University founded

                                Charles VII -                          (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik (Karl Sverkersson)

                                Knut VI +                               (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik (Knut Eriksson)

                                Genghiz Khan                                                                       1167-1227

1168                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Stephen Nemanja founds the Serbian Empire (-1196)

                                Arabs recapture Cairo

                                Paschal III (antipope) -         (Patriarchate of Rome)

                                Calixtus III (antipope) +        (Patriarchate of Rome)

1169                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Suzdal attacks Kiev

                                Nur ad-Din of Damascus conquers Fatimid Egypt

                                Saladin +                                (Egypt)                                                   vizier

1170                        St. Trophime in the Cloister (Arles, France)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Thomas a Becket is murdered in Cantebury by four knights after short-lived reconciliation with Henry II

                                Norman invasion of Ireland

                                University of Paris founded

                                al-Mustanjid -                       (Abbasid               Caliphate)                             (1160-)    32nd Abbasid Caliph

                                al-Mustadi' +                         (Abbasid               Caliphate)                             (-1180)    33rd Abbasid Caliph

                                Notre Dame School and the beginning of the Ars Antiqua  (1170-1200)

                                Codex Calixtinus

                                Magnus liber organi                                            Leonin   (1170-1175)

                                Guzman, Domingo de                                                          1170-1221

                                Fibonacci, Leonardo                                                            1170-1240

                                Vogelweide, Walter von der                                               1170-1230               Composer

                                Isaac, Joseph ben                                                                                1105-1170

1171                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Henry II formally annexes Ireland

                                Saladin overthrows Fatimids - reestablishes orthodoxy - founds Ayyubid dynasty in Syria and Egypt

1172                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Henry II visits Dublin

1173                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Rebellion of Henry II's eldest sons - Henry, Richard, and Geoffrey supported by Eleanor of Aquitaine

                                Richard Coeur de Lion at war against Henry II (his father) -1174

                                Thomas a Becket canonized

                                Ladislas II -                           (Bohemia)                                              Premyslid  King

                                Stephen III -                          (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Bela III +                                (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Vladimir II -                            (Poland)                                 is he Ladislaus II of Bohemia?

                                Boleslaus IV the Curly -      (Polish Kingdom)                 Piast Dynasty

                                Mieszko III the Old +           (Polish Kingdom)                 Piast Dynasty

1174                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Almoravides replaced by Almohades

                                Saladin conquers Syria

                                Amalric I +                             (Jerusalem)                                            (1162-)    6th King

                                Baldwin IV(the Leper) +      (Jerusalem)                                            (-1185) 7th King

                                Saladin ++                             (Egypt)                                                   vizier --> sultan

1175                        Cantebury Cathedral construction begins

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Mohammed of Ghuri and Qutb-ud-din Aybak lead first Turkish raid into India

                                Andrey Bogolyubski -        (Vladimir)                                               Grand Duke

                                Grosseteste, Robert                                                             1175-1253               Prelate/Philosopher (England)

                                Otto IV                                                                                   1175-1218               Emperor (HRE)

                                Raymond of Penafort                                                          1175-1275               Saint

                                Wace                                                                                      1100-1175

1176                        Dainichi Nyorai (Kokei / Unkei) (Kamakura Period)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Battle of Legnano - Milan assists in  Lombard League defeat of Emperor Frederick I (5/29)

                                Battle of Myriokephalon - Byzantine forces defeated by Seljuks (9/17)

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                                Vsevolod +                            (Vladimir/Suzdal)                                  (-1212)    Grand Duke

1177                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Treaty of Venice - between the papacy and Lomabrd League, HRE, Kingdom of Sicily (7)

                                Battle of Montgisard - Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin (11/25)

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                                Alfonso VIII conquers Cuenca

                                Henry II -                               (Austria)                                                (1156-)    Duke

                                Leopold V +                          (Austria)                                                (-1194)    Duke

                                Mieszko III the Old -            (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty

                                Casimir II the Just +             (Polish Kingdom)                                 Piast Dynasty

                                De Coincy, Gautier                                                               1177-1236

1178                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Yousouf abou Yacoub -      (Almohade Sultanate)                         (1163-)

                                Yacoub bin Yousouf +        (Almohade Sultanate)                         (-1199)

                                Calixtus III (antipope) -      (Patriarchate of Rome)

1179                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION ...    (1081-1180)                           Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Portugal's independence recognized by Alexander III

                                Grand Assize of Windsor - increasing power of royal courts in England

                                III Lateran Council

                                Saladin besieges Tyre

                                Innnocent III (antipope) +      (Patriarchate of Rome)                                                            (1179-1180)

                                Sturluson, Snorri                                                                  1179-1241

                                Hildegard of Bingen                                                            1098-1179

1180                        Nave Mosaics from Monreale Cathedral, Palermo (1180-1190)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                KOMNENIAN RESTORIATION -   (1081-1180)                             Byzantine Expansion

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                GENPEI WAR +   (1180-1185)                            (Japan)   Taira Clan vs. Minamoto Clan

                                Truce between Baldwin IV and Saladin

                                Louis VII -                             (France)                                                 (1137-)    King

                                Philip II Augustus +            (France)                                                 (-1223)    King

                                Manuel I -                              (Byzantine Empire)                               (1143-)    Emperor

                                Alexius II +                            (Byzantine Empire)                               (-1183)    Emperor (Comnenus)

                                al-Mustadi' -                          (Abbasid Caliphate)                            (1170-)    33rd Abbasid Caliph

                                al-Nasir +                               (Abbasid Caliphate)                            (-1225)    34th Abbasid Caliph

                                Innnocent III (antipope) -     (Patriarchate of Rome)                         (1179-1180)

1181                        The crossing of the red sea (Nicholas of Verdun)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                GENPEI WAR ...   (1180-1185)                            (Japan)   Taira Clan vs. Minamoto Clan

                                Alexander III -                         (Patriarchate of Rome)                       (1159-1181)

                                Lucius III +                              (Patriarchate of Rome)                       (1181-1185)

1182                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                GENPEI WAR ...   (1180-1185)                            (Japan)   Taira Clan vs. Minamoto Clan

                                Phillip II banishes Jews from France

                                Massacre of the Latins at Constantinople

                                Valdemar I -                           (Denmark)

                                Canute VI +                           (Denmark)

                                Francis of Assisi                                                                  1182-1226

1183                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                GENPEI WAR ...   (1180-1185)                            (Japan)   Taira Clan vs. Minamoto Clan

                                Peace of Constance - Milan gains independence

                                Perotin active at Notre Dame

                                Alexius II -                             (Byzantine Empire)                               (1180-)    Emperor (Comnenus)

                                Andronicus I +                     (Byzantine Empire)                               (-1185)    Emperor

1184                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                GENPEI WAR ...   (1180-1185)                            (Japan)   Taira Clan vs. Minamoto Clan

                                Magnus IV -                          (Norway)

                                Sverre +                                 (Norway)

1185                        Liber de arte honeste amandi et reprobatione inhonesti amantis (Andreas Capellanus) (3 vols.)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                GENPEI WAR -   (1180-1185)                             (Japan)   Taira Clan vs. Minamoto Clan

                                Philip II Augustus secures Amiens, Artois, and part of Vermandois from Philip I count of Flanders

                                Angeli dynasty in Byzantine Empire (-1204)

                                Kamakura period in Japan - shogunate officially recognized (-1333)

                                Last event described in Svend Aagesen's  Historia brevis regum Dacie occurs this year

                                Andronicus I -                      (Byzantine Empire)                               (1183-)    Emperor

                                Isaac II Angelus +               (Byzantine Empire)                               (-1195)    Angeli Emperor

                                Alfonso I Henriques -         (Portugal)                                              King (House of Burgundy)  (Count)

                                Sancho I +                             (Portugal)                                              King (House of Burgundy)

                                Baldwin IV(the Leper) -       (Jerusalem)                                            (1174-) 7th King

                                Baldwin V+                            (Jerusalem)                                            (-1186) 8th King

                                Lucius III -                            (Patriarchate of Rome)                           (1181-1185)

                                Urban III +                            (Patriarchate of Rome)                           (1185-1187)

                                Alexander of Hales                                                              1185-1245

                                Bhaskara, Acarya                                                                 1114-1185

1186                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Peter Asen II +                     (Bulgaria)                                               Czar Asen Dynasty

                                John Asen I +                       (Bulgaria)                                               King Asen Dynasty coregent

                                Baldwin V-                             (Jerusalem)                                            (1185-) 8th King

                                Guy de Lusignan +              (Jerusalem)                                            (-1192) 9th King

1187                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Battle of Hattin (Hittin) - Saladin destroys Crusaders and captures Jerusalem (7/4)

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                                Philip II Augustus attacks English territories in France

                                Floris III -                               (Holland)                                               Count

                                Raymond of Toulouse -        (Tripoli)                                                  (-1187) Count

                                Urban III -                               (Patriarchate of Rome)                        (1185-1187)

                                Gregory VIII +-                      (Patriarchate of Rome)                         *****

                                Clement III +                          (Patriarchate of Rome)                         (1187-1191)

1188                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Philip II Augustus allies with Richard I Coeur de Lion against Henry II - forced to cede several territories

                                Philip II Augustus and Henry II agree to go on crusade

                                Ferdinand II -                        (Leon)

                                Alfonso IX +                         (Leon)

1189                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THIRD CRUSADE +   (1189-1192)

                                Last known Norse visit to North America

                                Henry II -                               (England)                                               (1154-)

                                Richard I Coeur de Lion +   (England)                                               (-1199)    King (eldest son of Henry II)

                                Gilbert of Sempringham                                                       1083-1189

                                Henry II of Anjou                                                                 1133-1189               King

1190                        Guide for the Perplexed (Maimonides)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THIRD CRUSADE ...   (1189-1192)

                                Third Crusade (Richard I, Philip II Augustus , and Frederick Barbarossa) (-1192)                   (1189)

                                Mongol Empire grows in Eastern Asia

                                Frederick Barbarossa is drowned on his way to Palestine

                                Frederick I Barbarossa -      (Holy Roman Empire)                          (1152-)    Hohenstaufen Dynasty (2nd)

                                Henry VI +                             (Holy Roman Empire)                          (-1197)    Hohenstaufen Dynasty (3rd)

                                Lalibela +                               (Ethiopia)                                               Emperor

                                Beauvais, Vincent de                                                           1190-1264

                                Ventadorn, Bernart de                                                         1140-1190               Musician

1191                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THIRD CRUSADE ...   (1189-1192)

                                Philip II Augustus returns to France after quarrel with Richard I

                                Richard I conquers Cyprus and captures city of Acre

                                Philip I -                                 (Flanders)                                              (1157-)    Count 

                                Baldwin VIII +                       (Flanders)                                              Count  (from Hainut)

                                Margareta +                          (Flanders)                                              Countess

                                Dirk VII +                               (Holland)                                               (-1203)    Count

                                Clement III -                           (Patriarchate of Rome)                          (1187-1191)

                                Celestine III +                        (Patriarchate of Rome)                         (1191-1198)

1192                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                THIRD CRUSADE -   (1189-1192)

                                Richard I captures Jaffa and makes peace with Saladin

                                Duke Leopold of Austria captures Richard I on his way home

                                Battle of Tarain - Legions of Mohammed Ghor defeat Hindus under Prithivi Raj - Delhi Sultanate established

                                Guy de Lusignan -               (Jerusalem)                                            (1186-) 9th King

                                Henry of Champagne +       (Jerusalem)                                            (-1197) 10th King

                                Minamoto Yoritomo +         (Japan)                                                   Shogun

                                Hsiang Shan Lu                                                                    1139-1192

1193                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Notre Dame high altar consecrated

                                Leopold of Austria hands Richard I over to Emperor Henry VI who demands a ransom

                                Muslims capture Bihar and Bengal

                                Saladin -                                 (Egypt)                                                   Sultan

                                Al-Aziz Imad al-Din +          (Egypt)                                                   Sultan

                                Albertus Magnus                                                                                1193-1280

                                Saladin                                                                                   1137-1193               Ayyubite Sultan (Mesopotamia)

1194                        Vladimir-Suzdal', St. Demetrius Church construction begins at the Palace of Vsevolod (1194-1197)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Chartres Cathedral is struck by lightning – fire destroys all but West façade from 1145 reconstruction  (6/10)

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                                Philip II Augustus at war with Richard I - Philip compelled to surrender most of his annexations (-1199)

                                Richard I is ransomed and returns to England

                                Henry VI conquers Sicily

                                Sancho V -                            (Navarre)                                               the Wise

                                Sancho VI +                          (Navarre)                                               the Strong

                                Leopold V -                            (Austria)                                               (1177-)   Duke

                                Frederick I +                        (Austria)                                               (1194-1198)         Duke

                                Ottokar I +                            (Bohemia)                                             Premyslid  King (1197)

                                Margareta -                          (Flanders)                                             Countess

                                Casimir II the Just -           (Polish Kingdom)                                Piast Dynasty

                                Mieszko III the Old +          (Polish Kingdom)                                Piast Dynasty

                                Frederick II                                                                            1194-1250               Holy Roman Emperor

1195                        Last Judgement Frescoe  (Vladimir-Suzdal', St. Demetrius Church)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Chartres Cathedral rebuilding commences

Alfonso VIII defeated by the Moors

                                Isaac II Angelus -                                (Byzantine Empire)                               (1185-)Emperor

                                Alexius III +                          (Byzantine Empire)                               (-1203)    Emperor

                                Baldwin VIII -                        (Flanders)                                              Count  (from Hainut)

                                Baldwin IX +                         (Flanders)                                              Count (emperor of Constantinpole 1204)

1196                       Liber ad honorem augusti (Petrus of Ebulo)

                                Notre Dame nave completed except for the roofing

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                Marimid Dynasty in Morocco founded at Fez (-1464)

                                Frederick II elected king of the Germans

                                Alfonso II -                           (Aragon)

                                Pedro II +                               (Aragon)                                                (-1213)King

                                John Asen I -                        (Bulgaria)                                               King Asen Dynasty coregent

                                Bela III -                                (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Emeric +                               (Hungary)                                              King 

                                Knut VI -                                (Sweden)                                               House of Sverker and Erik (Knut Eriksson)

                                Sverker the Younger +        (Sweden)                                               (-1208)    House of Sverker and Erik (Karlsson)

1197                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Civil war follows the death of Henry VI in Germany (9/28)

                                Empress Constance secures Frederick II's investiture as king of Sicily from Pope Innocent III

                                War between Constance's Norman followers and Henry VI's German followers (-1208)

                                John Asen (Kalojan) founds the Second Bulgarian Empire (-1207)

                                Henry VI -                              (Holy Roman Empire)                          (1190-)    (3rd) Hohenstaufen Dynasty

                                Frederick II +                         (Sicily)                                                    (-1250)    King (Hohenstaufen)

                                Peter Asen II -                      (Bulgaria)                                               Czar Asen Dynasty

                                John Asen (Kaloyan) +       (Bulgaria)                                               (-1207)    1st Emperor 2nd Bulgarian Empire

                                Henry of Champagne -        (Jerusalem)                                            (1192-) 10th King

                                Amalric II of Cyprus +         (Jerusalem)                                            (-1205) 11th King

                                Madhua                                                                                 1197-1276

1198                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Philip of Swabia is elected King of Germany at Mulhausen (3/8)

                                Philip of Swabia is  crowned King of Germany at Mainz (9/8)

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                                Hugh of Lincoln spokesman for barons refusal of money to Richard I

                                Richard I secures the election of Otto IV of Saxony as antiking to Philip of Swabia

                                Pope Innocent becomes guardian of Frederick II on Empress Constance' death

                                Zenith of Gallici under Roman of Smolensk (-1205)

                                Philip of Swabia +                (Germany)                                              (-1208)    Hohenstaufen Dynasty (4th)

                                Otto IV +                                (Holy Roman Empire)                          (-1209)    Guelph antiking

                                Frederick I -                           (Austria)                                                (1194-)    Duke

                                Leopold VI +                         (Austria)                                                Duke       The Glorious

                                Muhammed an-Nasir +        (Almohade Dynasty)                           (1198-1213)            Caliph

                                Al-Aziz Imad al-Din -           (Egypt)                                                   Sultan

                                Celestine III -                          (Patriarchate of Rome)                        (1191-1198)

                                Innocent III +                          (Patriarchate of Rome)                       (1198-1216)

                                Averroes, Mohammed Ibn Rashid                                    1126-1198               Aristotelian Philosopher

                                Constance                                                                             1154-1198               Empress (HRE)

1199                        BYZANTINE-BULGARIAN WARS ...   (680-1355)

                                NORWEGIAN CIVIL WAR (BORGERKRIGSTIDA) ...   (1130-1240)

                                Philip II Augustus espouses the cause of Arthur I of Brittany against John Lackland

                                Richard I Coeur de Lion -    (England)                                               (1189-)    King (eldest son of Henry II)

                                John Lackland +                   (England)                                               (-1216)    King (youngest son of Henry II)

                                Yacoub bin Yousouf -         (Almohade Sultanate)                         (1178-)

                                Mohammed bin Yacoub +  (Almohade Sultanate)                         (-1213)

                                Richard Coer de Lion                                                           1157-1199

 




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