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Heads of State

Year of the Metal Hare辛卯(at the beginning of Metal Tiger庚寅)

Syria: 1482/83 ( the year in October )

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Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • The English king Henry II arrives in Ireland to support the 1169 approved of him conquering troops under Strongbow and to prevent them to big power gain.
  • After the death of the last Fatimid caliph al - Adid Saladin reigns alone as Sultan of Egypt. Saladin, the Sunni orthodoxy in Egypt restores and founded the dynasty of the Ayyubids.
  • March 12: Following riots in which the quarter of the Genoese merchants in Constantinople Opel is destroyed, can the Emperor Manuel I Comnenus in the entire Byzantine Empire all the merchants of Venice arrest, imprison and confiscate their property. Few can escape. (See history of the Fourth Crusade )
  • September: A Venetian fleet with 120 ships running as a punitive expedition against Byzantium, wintered in Chios, but must reverse unsuccessful in the spring of 1172, after the plague breaks out among the crews and then gathers thousands.

Born

  • 000Juli: Baldwin I, Latin emperor of Constantinople Opel, Count of Flanders, Count of Hainaut, a leader of the 4th Crusade († 1205 )

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  • Abd al -Malik al - Aziz Uthman, Sultan of the Ayyubid († 1198 )
  • Jochi - Noyon, progenitor of the khans of the Golden Horde and the first prince of the Uzbeks and Kazakhs († 1227 )
  • Minamoto no Michitomo, Japanese poet († 1227 )

Died

  • February 23: Otto of Cappenberg, godfather of the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (c. 1100)
  • Al- Adid, the 14th Caliph of the Fatimids (* 1149 )
  • Al -Hassan ibn Ziri, the ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya
  • Diarmuid Mac Murchadha Caomhanach, petty king of Leinster in Ireland ( * 1110 )
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