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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Snake己巳( at the beginning of the year Earth Dragon龙 辰)

Syria: 1460/61 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• English Civil War 1135-1154
• First mention of Bachenbülach, Bühl (Baden), Chur Walden, Haldenstein, Hori, King Home, St. Martin (Pfalz ) and Sils im Domleschg

Religion

• Bernard of Clairvaux begins his major work De consideratione ( to 1152 ).
• Berthold IV von Eberstein endows the monastery Herrenalb.

Born

• Al- Adid, fourteenth caliph of the Fatimid († 1171 )
• Al- Faiz, three tenth caliph of the Fatimid († 1160 )

Died

• JUNE 27: Raymond of Poitiers, Count of Poitou and Duke of Antioch (* 1099 )

• Al- Hafiz, eleventh Caliph of the Fatimids
• Diego Gelmírez, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela (c. 1069)