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Heads of State

Year of the Earth Rooster己酉(at the beginning of Earth Monkey戊申)

Syria: 1500/ 01 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Third Crusade

• AUGUST 28: King Guy of Jerusalem I. begins with the siege of Acre ( to 1191 ) the reconquest of his kingdom.
• 4 October: The Battle of Acre ends with a loss- draw between Saladin and the besieging Acre Crusaders.

More Events in Europe

• July 6th: By the death of his father, Henry II, Richard the Lionheart is to the English king.
• September 3: Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.

• Constance of Sicily, wife of the Emperor Henry VI. , Inherits the Norman kingdom in Sicily and southern Italy.
• Sancho I of Portugal conquered the city of Silves from the Almohad and then calls itself the first time King of the Algarve.

Ersturkundliche mentions

• Benzenschwil, Bottenwil, Bözberg, Unterrüti, high village ( near Plochingen ), Ifenthal and Tägerig are first mentioned.

Economy

• March 21: The German King Henry VI. gives Bishop of Minden Thietmar the right to at Dehem (now Dehme district of the city of Bad Oeynhausen ): exploit discovered silver deposits and Cruckeberge ( district Krückeberg the city Hessian Oldendorf today).
• May 7: Hamburg will allegedly by Frederick Barbarossa a port charter. This turns out later to be a forgery.

Religion

• Bishop Otto of Bamberg is canonized.
• Leon Theotokites is Patriarch of Constantinople Opel.
• Buddhism in Tibet: The Tibetan Lama Düsum Khyenpa founded the Tshurphu Monastery.

Historic maps and views

Born

• Ugedai Khan, second Great Khan of the Mongols († 1241 )
• Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir († 1238 )
• Skule Bårdsson, Jarl of Norway and last anti-king († 1240)

Died

• January 01: Henry of Marcy, Cardinal Bishop of Albano

• February 04: Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder (* 1083 )

• 04 March: . Humbert III, Count of Savoy (c. 1120)
• March 25: Friedrich, Duke of Bohemia (c. 1142 )

• JUNE 28: Matilda of England, eldest daughter of King Henry II (* 1156 )

• 06 July: Henry II, Duke of Anjou, King of England (* 1133)

• AUGUST 21: Geoffrey Ridel, Lord Chancellor of England

• October 01: Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• 04 October: Andrew of Brienne, Lord of Ramerupt (* 1135 )

• Folmar of carding, Archbishop of Trier ( * 1135 )
• Musashibo Benkei Japanese Warrior Monk ( Sohei ) (* 1155 )
• Engelbert I of Berg, regent of the County of Mark