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Events 
 By area 

 Asia 
 Crusaders and Seljuk Turks fought the Battle of Shaizar in Syria to a draw.
 The Song Dynasty, Chinese Donglin Academy is established.

 Europe 
 May 24 – The commune of Laus is destroyed by Milanese troops.
 Baldwin VII becomes Count of Flanders.
 Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Paschal II.
 Santarém and Sintra are captured by the Almoravid troops of the general Sir ibn Abi Bakr. The efforts of the Berbers to reconquer lost ground lead to the sack of Coimbra. The same year, the city had experienced the sole urban rebellion against their lord to take place in Portugal.
 Alfonso VII becomes King of Galicia.

 By topic 

 Religion 
 The Synod of Rathbreasail marks the transition of the Irish church from a monastic to a diocesan structure.
 Births 

 Deaths 
 February 22 – Roger Borsa, King of Sicily (b. 1078)
 March 3 – Prince Bohemund I of Antioch (b. 1058)
 October 5 – Robert II, Count of Flanders (b. 1065)
 Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali, Persian theologian (b. 1058)
 Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, prince of Powys
 Iorwerth ap Bleddyn, prince of Powys in eastern Wales
 Richard II of Gaeta, consul and duke of Gaeta
 Otto II, Count of Habsburg
 Antipope Sylvester IV
 Ōe no Masafusa, scholar and tutor (b. 1041)
 Robert of Molesme, Christian saint and abbot (b. 1027)

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