1189
1189 was a common year.
Events
January 21 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade
September 3- Richard I of England is crowned as king of England.
August 29- Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which become a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood
This year was fixed as the start of time immemorial in English law in 1276.
Beginning of the Siege of Acre.
The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.
Births
Yuri II, grand prince of Vladimir (d. 1238)
Deaths
July 6 -- King Henry II of England (b. 1133)