[edit] Events

• May 9 — Tintern Abbey is founded.
• Ramon Berenguer IV becomes Count of Barcelona.
• Alberich becomes Archdeacon of Reims.
• Fulk of Anjou and Melisende become King and Queen of Jerusalem.
• Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in China (completed in 1162).

[edit] Births

• King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)

[edit] Deaths

• March 1 — King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
• April 30 — Saint Adjutor
• August 21 — King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
• December 4 — Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
• Alger of Liège, French monk at Cluny (b. 1055)
• Bohemund II of Antioch (b. 1108)
• Gaston IV of Béarn
• Joscelin I, Count of Edessa
• Peter the Hermit, French priest and crusader
• Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (b. 1082)