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Events 
 April 25 – Genpei War – Naval battle of Dan-no-ura leads to Minamoto victory in JapanKitagawa, Hiroshi et al. (1975). The Tale of the Heike, p. 787; Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, pp. 211–212.
 Templars settle in London and begin the building of New Temple Church
 End of the Heian Period and beginning of the Kamakura period in Japan.
 Founding of Katedralskolan in Lund, Sweden. The school is the oldest in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe.
 Peter and Asen led a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.
 August 15 – The cave city of Vardzia was consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia

 Births 
 April 23 – King Afonso II of Portugal (died 1223)
 Inge II of Norway (died 1217)
 Gertrude of Merania, queen of Andrew II of Hungary (died 1213)

 Deaths 
 April 25 – Emperor Antoku, 81st emperor of Japan (b. 1178)
 June 16 – Richeza of Poland, daughter of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland
 July 18 – Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala
 July 25 – King Afonso I of Portugal (born 1109)
 September 12 – Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor
 November 25 – Pope Lucius III
 December 6 – King Afonso I of Portugal (born 1109)
 Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)
 Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (born 1147)
 Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (born 1160)
 Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (born 1158)
 Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (born 1152)
 Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier

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