[edit] Events and trends

• 1170 — Thomas à Becket assassinated.
• 1171 — Saladin abolishes the Fatimid caliphate, restoring Sunni rule in Egypt.
• 1171 - King Henry II of England lands in Ireland to assert his supremacy; the Synod of Cashel acknowledges his supremacy.
• 1179 — Third Council of the Lateran condemns Waldensians and Cathars as heretics; reformation of clerical life.

[edit] Significant people

• Henry I of England Beauclerc, King 1100-1135.