1190s
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1160s 1170s 1180s – 1190s – 1200s 1210s 1220s |
| Years: | 1190 1191 1192 1193 1194 1195 1196 1197 1198 1199 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
This is a list of events occurring in the 1190s, ordered by year.
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1190 [edit]
By area [edit]
Asia [edit]
- June 10 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- The Teutonic Knights are founded to defend the Latin states in the Levant.
- November 24 – Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure king.
- In Myanmar, Anawrahta's lineage regains control with the assistance of Sri Lanka. Pagan has been in anarchy. The new regime reforms Burmese Buddhism on Sri Lankan Theravada models.
- The feudal era of Japan begins.
Europe [edit]
- Anti-Jewish riots break out in England.
- March 16 – A massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England, led by Richard Malebys, result in the deaths of 150–500 Jews in Clifford's Tower.
- October 4 – Richard I of England threatens war against Tancred of Sicily, and captures Messina.
- Battle of Stara Zagora: The Bulgarians defeat Byzantine Emperor Isaac II.
- Henry I becomes Duke of Brabant.
- Richard I of England and Philip II of France meet at Vézelay, thus beginning the Third Crusade.
- The Almohad caliph, Yaqub al-Mansur, fails to reconquer Silves in Portugal.[1]
By topic [edit]
Arts [edit]
- On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (ar. Kitab fasl al-maqal), by Averroes, is first published.
- Speculum Virginum, a German manuscript, is published (approximate date).
Religion [edit]
- Cartmel Priory is founded in England.
- Stevan Nemanja founds the Studenica monastery in Serbia.
1191 [edit]
By place [edit]
Asia [edit]
- July 12 – Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers. Richard stays to push on to Jerusalem, but Philip returns to France to take possession of a part of Flanders whose count had died at the siege of Acre. Back in France, Philip also schemes with Richard's brother, John of England, to dispossess Richard of his French lands while he is still away, but the intervention of John's (and Richard's) mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, foils the plan.[2]
- September 7 – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf during the Third Crusade.
- Khmer King Jayavarman VII sacks the capital of Champa.
Europe [edit]
- April 17 – Tusculum is destroyed by the army of the Commune of Rome.[3]
- May 12 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
- Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned by Pope Celestine III.
- Duke Berthold V of Zähringen founds the city of Bern (present-day Switzerland).
- After having failed in their endeavor the year before, the Almohads reconquer the city of Silves in Portugal.[1] In the same campaign, the Almohads take also Alcácer so Sal while Palmela and Almada are sacked.[4]
By topic [edit]
Art [edit]
- The monks of Glastonbury Abbey announce that they have found the burial sites of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.
Technology [edit]
- The first reference to the windmill in Europe is made by a Dean Herbert of East Anglia, whose mills are supposedly in competition with the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. This is probably an invention imported from interaction with the Muslim world, since the first windmills were most likely innovated from the Bana Musa brothers in the Islamic Middle East during the middle 9th century. The windmill will spread in the other direction, to be introduced to China by as early as 1219.
Religion [edit]
- April 14 – Pope Celestine III succeeds Pope Clement III as the 175th pope.
- November 27 – Reginald fitz Jocelin is elected Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Eisai founds the Rinzai Zen sect in Japan.
- The monks of Glastonbury Abbey dig up the remains of a large knight and a blonde woman and announce to have discovered the tomb of king Arthur and Queen Guinevere.[5]
1192 [edit]
- January 7 – Venus occults Jupiter
- April 28 – Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, is assassinated in Tyre, only days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
- August 21 – Minamoto no Yoritomo is granted the title of shogun, thereby officially establishing the first shogunate in the history of Japan.
- October 9 – The Third Crusade ends. Richard I of England and Saladin negotiate visiting rights for pilgrims to come to the Holy City of Jerusalem.
- Richard I of England is taken hostage by Leopold V of Austria.
- Battle of Tarain in India
- Marco Polo Bridge, or Lugouqiao, is completed in Beijing.
- Prince Yaroslav Vladimirovich[disambiguation needed] of Novgorod burns down Tartu and Otepää Castles in Estonia.
1193 [edit]
- January 1 – Enrico Dandolo becomes Doge of Venice.
- August 15 – Philip II of France marries Ingeborg, daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark.
- Following the death of Saladin, the lands of the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria are split among his descendants.
- On his return from the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionheart is captured by his personal enemy, Leopold V, Duke of Austria.[6]
- Qutb-ud-din Aybak, a Ghurid slave commander, captures Delhi.
- Muhammad Khilji, a general under the command of Qutb-ud-Din, sacks and burns Nalanda, India's greatest Buddhist university.
- Pope Celestine III calls for a crusade against pagans in Northern Europe.
- The Aztec civilization begins in Mexico.
1194 [edit]
- February 4 – Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- April 1194 - Richard I arrives back in England
- May 12, 1194 - After settling affairs in England, Richard arrives across the Channel at Barfleur in Normandy to reclaim lands lost to Philip II.
- June 10 – A fire at Chartres Cathedral leads to the start of its rebuilding.[7]
- July 3 – Battle of Freteval: Richard I of England reconquers his French fiefdoms from Philip II Augustus.[8]
- July 5 – Emperor Guangzong of Song China is forced to give up his throne.
- November 20 – Palermo falls to Henry VI.
- December 25 – Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily.
- The city of Portsmouth is awarded its Royal Charter.
- Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter.
- The Yellow River of China experiences a major course change, taking over the Huai River drainage system for the next 700 years.
- The Danes attack Estonia.
- Seljuq dynasty of Hamadan ends.
1195 [edit]
- June 1 – Battle of Shamkor: Georgians defeat the Ildenizids of Azerbaijan.
- July 18 – Battle of Alarcos: Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur decisively defeats Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
- The Priory of St Mary's is founded in Bushmead.
- Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II and becomes Byzantine Emperor.
1196 [edit]
- England is struck by a pestilence and a resulting famine[9]
- Spring – In London, a popular uprising of the poor against the rich is led by William Fitz Osbern.
- Upon the death of Knut Eriksson, he succeeded peacefully as king of Sweden by his rival Sverker the Younger.
- According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reaches North America in what is present-day Alabama.
- Stefan Prvovencani becomes Grand Župan of Serbia.
- General Ch'oe Ch'ung-hon takes control in Korea.
1197 [edit]
By area [edit]
Asia [edit]
- Genghis Khan defeats the Jurkins. Mukhali's father gives him and his brother to Genghis Khan as personal hereditary slaves.
- Amalric II succeeds Henry II of Champagne as King of Jerusalem.
Europe [edit]
- Theobald III becomes Count of Champagne.
- Kaloyan becomes Tsar of Bulgaria.
- Corfu is occupied by the Genoese.
- Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, negotiates a peace with Wales.
- North Crawley is split into Great Crawley and Little Crawley.
- Philip of Swabia marries Irene Angelina, daughter of Byzantine emperor Isaac II.
- The Danes attack Estonia.
- Saracen pirates, from the Balearic Islands, raid the city of Toulon in Provence and the benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands.[10]
By topic [edit]
Market [edit]
- Rainy weather causes the harvest to fail in western Europe. One of the worse famines of the century ensues.[11]
Religion [edit]
- Arbroath Abbey is consecrated, and dedicated to St. Thomas Becket.
1198 [edit]
By place [edit]
Asia [edit]
- Emperor Tsuchimikado succeeds Emperor Go-Toba on the throne of Japan.
- July 14 – donation of Altavilla: Bohemond I, the new crusader ruler of Antioch grants commercial privileges and the right to use warehouses (fondaco) and the church of Saint John to the Republic of Genoa. This marks the beginning of Italian merchant settlements in the Levant.[12]
Europe [edit]
- March – Philip of Swabia is elected King of Germany by his supporters.
- July – Otto of Brunswick[disambiguation needed] is crowned King of Germany by the House of Welf.
- Frederick II, infant son of German King Henry VI, is crowned King of Sicily.
- John of England captures a party of eighteen French knights & many men-at-arms in the ongoing conflict against France.[13] King Richard I of England introduces a new Great Seal in an attempt to keep the war against France funded. The government proclaims that charters previously struck with the old seal are no longer valid and must be renewed with a fresh payment.[14] The office of Lord Warden of the Stannaries is also introduced to tax the produce of tin mines in Cornwall and Devon.[15]
By topic [edit]
Religion [edit]
- January 8 – Pope Innocent III succeeds Pope Celestine III as the 176th pope. He immediately lays an interdict on Laon in an attempt to stamp out independent beliefs there. This will be followed by interdicts against France in 1199 and Normandy in 1203.
1199 [edit]
- January 13 – Short-lived truce between England and France.[16]
- March 25 – King Richard I of England is shot in the left shoulder with a crossbow by French boy Pierre Basile at the siege of the castle of Châlus in France.[17] The war between the kingdoms of England and France has become so brutal that Hugh of Lincoln is warned that "nothing now is safe, neither the city to dwell in nor the highway for travel".[18]
- April 6 – King Richard I of England dies from gangrene caused by his crossbow wound. His younger brother, John, becomes King of England. Richard's jewels are left to his nephew, Otto, King of the Romans.[19] As a result of Richard's death, French soldier Mercadier has Pierre Basile flayed alive and hanged.
- King Philip II of France renews his war against John of England, supporting the rival claim to the English throne of Arthur of Brittany.[16]
- St Laurence's Church, Ludlow, in England is rebuilt.
Significant people [edit]
Births [edit]
Deaths [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b Picard, Christophe (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 43
- ^ Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (2010) L'autre Rome. Une histoire des Romains à l'époque communale (XIIe-XIVe siècle). Paris: Tallandier. pp.316.
- ^ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
- ^ Grandsen, Antonia (2001). "The Growth of Glastonbury Traditions and Legends in the Twelfth Century". In J. P. Carley. Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian tradition. Boydell & Brewer. p. 43. ISBN 0-85991-572-7.
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 44
- ^ Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 129–131. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 60
- ^ Unité mixte de recherche 5648--Histoire et archéologie des mondes chrétiens et musulmans médiévaux. Pays d'Islam et monde latin, Xe-XIIIe siècle: textes et documents. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon.
- ^ Chester Jordan, William (1997). The great famine: northern Europe in the early fourteenth century. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05891-1.
- ^ Benvenuti, Gino (1985). Le Repubbliche Marinare. Amalfi, Pisa, Genova e Venezia. Rome: Newton & Compton Editori. p. 34. ISBN 88-8289-529-7.
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 47
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 62
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 124
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 73–75. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 129–131. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 63
- ^ Warren, Lewis (1961). King John. University of California Press. p. 48.
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