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Heads of State
Year of the Fire Rat丙子( at the beginning of the year Wood Pig乙亥)
Syria: 1467/68 ( the year in October )
- 2.1 Exact date of birth unknown
- 2.2 Born around 1156
- 3.1 Exact date of death unknown
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Europe
- In Venice the Monte Vecchio is founded, an association of creditors who makes as the first banking institution of the West history.
- Friedrich II of Berg is Archbishop of Cologne.
- Otto the Rich will Margrave of Meissen.
- Giorgi III. becomes King of Georgia.
- The arranged by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky construction of the fortress Moskow on the edge of his territory is completed.
Ersturkundliche mentions
Asia
- Hōgen Rebellion in Japan
- Founding of the Indian city of Jaisalmer
Born
- OCTOBER 27:. Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse ( † 1222 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Hōjō Masako, mother of the Japanese Shoguns Minamoto no Yoriie and Minamoto no Sanetomo († 1225 )
Born around 1156
- Mathilde Plantagenet, Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria ( † 1189 )
- Al- Amidi, Islamic scholar († 1233 )
- Bona of Pisa, Catholic Augustinerterziarin and mystic († 1207/ 08)
Died
- JULY 20: Toba, 74 Tennō of Japan (* 1104)
- September 20: Hermann von Stahleck, Count Palatine of the Rhine
- November 22: Henry I of Tecklenburg, Count of Tecklenburg (* 1115 )
- December 25: Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, theologian and reformer monastery (* 1094 )
Exact date of death unknown
- William of Poitiers, eldest son of Henry II of England (* 1153 )