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Events 

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 Asia 
 The Song Dynasty governor of the seaport of Quanzhou, Fujian, China, reports the population of his city has reached 500,000.
 August–September (the eighth month of the Chinese calendar) – Wanyan Xiyin completes the design of the first version of the Jurchen script

 Europe 
 January 16 – The Council of Nablus is held in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
 June 17 – at the Battle of Cutanda, the Aragonese troops of Alfonso I defeat the Almoravid army.Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.86.
 November 25 – The White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel, resulting in the death of the son of King Henry I of England.
 Walcher of Malvern creates a system of measurement for the earth using degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.
 Construction begins on Llandaff Cathedral in Wales.
 Foundation of Freiburg in Breisgau.
 Under admirals Abu Abd Allah ibn Maymum of Almeria and Isa ibn Mayum of Sevilla, the Almoravid fleet attacks the Christian kingdom of Galicia.Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

 Births 
 November 28 – Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
 Ioveta of Bethany, daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem
 Louis VII of France (d. 1180)

 Deaths 
 November 25 – William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (sinking of the White Ship) (b. 1103)
 September 3 – Gerard Thom (The Blessed Gerard), founder of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c. 1040)
 Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (b. 1094)

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