1196

Events 
 Spring, London, popular uprising of the poor against the rich led by William Fitz Osbern.
 According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reached North America in what is present-day Alabama.
 Stefan Prvovencani becomes Grand Župan of Serbia
 Creation of water boards in the region of present-day Netherlands, thereby being one of the oldest democratic entities still in existence in the world today.

 Births 
 January 3 — Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
 Alice of Champagne, daughter of Henry II of Champagne and regent of Jerusalem (d. 1246)

 Deaths 
 August 15 — Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
 King Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1152)
 Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
 William Fitz Osbern
 Vsevolod Svyatoslavich, Prince of Trubchevsk and Kursk