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Heads of State

Year of the fire horse丙午( at the beginning of the year Wood Snake乙巳)

Syria: 1437/38 ( year October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• The Almoravids begin to deport Christians to Morocco. Alfonso I of Aragon defeated the Almoravids near Lucena.

Religion and Culture

• MARCH 23: Heinrich Zdik shall assume office of the Bishop of Olomouc.
• November 12: The Stone Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul dedicated and founded by Imar Ua h- Aedacháin monastery and later Augustinian Canons in Armagh is inaugurated by the Archbishop Cellach Mac Aodh.

Born

• Averroes, Spanish -Arab philosopher, physician and mystic († 1198 )
• Michael the Syrian, Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church († 1199 )

Died

• MARCH 8: Urraca, Queen of León - Castile (c. 1080 )
• June 14: Hugh I, Count of Troyes

• Ahmad Ghazali, Islamic mystics
• Celestine II, antipope in December 1124
• Ekkehard of Aura, a Benedictine monk and chronicler