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Events 

 By area 

 Africa 
 Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins an invasion of Egypt.
 The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, takes over the independent island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.

 Americas 
 The Aztecs leave Aztlán, searching for the site of what will eventually become Tenochtitlán (later Mexico City).

 Europe 
 The Portuguese, under the leadership of countess Theresa take two Galician cities, Tui and Ourense. In reply, the sister of Countess Theresa, Queen Urraca of Leon and Castile, attacks Portugal.
 Almoravid troops take over the Balearic islands whose Muslim king had been severely weakened by Pisan and Catalan raiders.Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.83.

 By topic 

 Arts and technology 
 The modern book of separate pages stitched together is invented in China.
 Construction starts on the Chennakesava Temple in India.
 Aak music is introduced to the Korean court by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

 Births 
 Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (d. 1173)

 Deaths 
 February 3 – Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
 February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, a preacher and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault (b. c. 1045)

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