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Heads of State
Year of the Earth- pig己亥(at the beginning of earth - dog戊戌)
Syria: 1490/91 ( the year in October )
Events
Politics and World Affairs
- MAY 23: Pope Alexander III. confirmed with the Bull Manifestis probatum Portuguese independence from the Kingdom of León and Galicia and the Count Afonso Henriques as king Afonso I of Portugal.
- 24 to 30 August: The Ayyubids under Saladin defeated the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Knights Templar in the Battle of the Jacob ford devastating. The just under construction crusader castle Chastellet is thereby destroyed to its foundations.
- Frederick Barbarossa gives the Bishops of Brixen Imperial Prince title.
- First mention of Alttann, Anières, Dottikon, Eschert, Furtwangen in the Black Forest, Pleigne, Ramsach, Seelbach, Tannenkirch, Sornetan, Tennebronn with the Church, and Welsch Undervelier tube.
Religion
- March 5: Third Lateran Council by Pope Alexander III. convened: This is the Pope temporal and spiritual ruler
- September 29: Lando of Seeze is as Innocent III. Anti-pope to Pope Alexander III.
- Theodosius I. Barradiotes is Patriarch of Constantinople Opel
Born
- Christian II of Bolanden, Archbishop of Mainz ( † 1253 )
- Constance of Aragon, Empress, Queen of Hungary and Sicily ( † 1222 )
- Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic poet and historian († 1241 )
- William IV, Count of Ponthieu († 1221 )
Died
- January 31: Frederick I, Bishop of Prague (c. 1117 )
- Humphrey II of Toron, vassal and official of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (* 1117 )