Events

• Duke Richard of Aquitaine becomes Duke of Poitiers. He later becomes King Richard I of England.
• Pope Gregory VIII hosts the Council of Avranches where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket
• The Synod of Cashel ended the Celtic Christian system and brought them under Rome.

Births

• Baldwin I of Constantinople (d. 1205)
• Fujiwara Moroie , last of the Japanese Fujiwara Regents

Deaths

• Agnes, daughter of Italian Count Amadeus III of Savoy