| | PH : | Eric of Sweden conquers Finland |
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| | PH : | Frederick Barbarossa makes Vladislav II King of Bohemia | | DL : | Munich becomes centre of salt trade |
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| | RP : | The great Pope Alexander III |
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| | M : | Perotinus Magister (Pérotin) born | | PH : | Normans expelled from North Africa | | LT : | Tristan et Iseult, Celtic epic by Beroul and Thomas |
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| | PH : | Frederick Barbarossa destroys Milan | | RP : | Thomas à Becket elected Archbishop of Canterbury |
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| | M : | Magister Leoninus (Léonin) born | | PH : | Quarrel starts between Henry II and Thomas à Becket |
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| | PH : | Becket flees to France | | LT : | Gautier d'Arras: Eracle |
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| | PH : | Malcolm IV dies; succeeded by his brother William the Lion | | PH : | Byzantium allies with Venice against the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa |
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| | M : | The Song of Canute, Eng. ballad by a monk of Ely | | DL : | Assize of Clarendon orders erection of jails in all Eng. counties and boroughs |
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| | PH : | Frederick Barbarossa crowned emperor | | ED : | Oxford University founded |
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| | DL : | Milan rebuilt | | PH : | Bogolubsky sacks Kiev and assumes title of Grand Prince |
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| | PH : | Although Henry II and Becket formally reconciled, Becket returns to Canterbury and is murdered by four Norman knights | | PH : | Albert the Bear dies | | PH : | Saladin of Damascus subdues Egypt | | LT : | Chrétien de Troyes: Lancelot, romance of courtly love | | RP : | Pope Alexander III establishes rules for canonisation of saints | | DL : | "Inquest of Sheriffs", financial inquiry, results in strengthening the Exchequer |
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| | PH : | Queen Eleanor raises Aquitaine against Henry II | | PH : | Reconciliation between Henry II and the Pope | | PH : | The Venice Grand Council restricts the powers of the doges | | ED : | Wace: Roman de Rou, chronicle of Norman dukes |
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| | PH : | Queen Eleanor imprisoned | | PH : | Béla III, King of Hungary | | RP : | Waldensian movement begins at Lyons | | DL : | First authenticated influenza epidemics |
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| | PH : | The Emperor Frederick I buys Tuscany, Spoleto, Sardinia, and Corsica from Welf VI | | PH : | Henry II does penance at Canterbury for murder of Becket | | DL : | Earliest horse races in England |
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| | PH : | The Emperor Frederick I defeated by the Lombard League at Legnano | | PH : | Saladin conquers Syria | | LT : | The first eisteddfod held at Cardigan Castle | | LT : | Romand de Renard, the first version of the Reynard the Fox fables, written in French | | LT : | Walter Map organises the Arthurian legends in their present form | | DL : | Assize of Northampton extends use of Grand Jury |
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| | PH : | Treaty of Ivry between Henry II and Louis VII | | PH : | Peace of Venice between Emperor Frederick I and Pope Alexander III | | DL : | Founding of Belfast |
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| | PH : | Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa crowned King of Burgundy | | DL : | The famous bridge at Avignon built | | RP : | Richard Fitznigel: Dialogus de Saccario, on the financial administration of England |
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| | M : | Hildegard von Bingen dies 17 September |
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| | PH : | Louis VIII of France dies; succeeded by his son Philip II Augustus | | PH : | Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor | | DL : | Ranulf de Glanvill reforms Eng. judicial system | | DL : | Glass windows appear in Eng. private houses | | DL : | First windmills with vertical sails in Europe |
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| | RP : | First Carthusian monastery in England at Witham | | RP : | Pope Lucius III |
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| | PH : | Canute VI, King of Denmark | | RP : | The Jews banished from France |
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| | PH : | Peace of Constance: Lombard League recognised under imperial overlordship | | PH : | The Emperor Alexius II murdered; succeeded by Andronicus I |
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| | PH : | Diet of Mainz: the Emperor Frederick I's power at its height | | PH : | Cyprus frees itself from Byzantium | | PH : | Tamara, Queen of Georgia |
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| | PH : | Isaac II Angelus, Byzantine Emperor | | PH : | Second Bulgarian Empire founded by the brothers Ivan and Peter Asen | | RP : | Pope Urban III | | RP : | Knights Templars established in London |
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| | PH : | Henry VI, son of Frederick Barbarossa, marries Constance, heiress of Sicily, and assumes title of Caesar | | PH : | Beginning of the Kamakura era in Japan |
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| | PH : | Saladin defeats Christians at Hittin and takes Jerusalem | | PH : | Pumjab conquered by Mohammed of Ghor | | RP : | Pope Gregory VIII, followed by Pope Clement III |
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| | PH : | King Henry II of England dies; succeeded by Richard I, Coeur-de-Lion GO ! | | PH : | Third Crusade | | RP : | Massacre of the Jews at the coronation of Richard I | | DL : | First silver florins minted at Florence | | DL : | Commercial treaty between Novgorod and Ger. merchants |
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| | M : | Magister Leoninus (Léonin) dies | | PH : | Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in river Saleph in Cilicia; succeeded by his son Henry VI | | RP : | Order of German Hospitalers founded (transformed in 1198 into Teutonic Order) |
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| | PH : | Richard I conquers Cyprus and sells it to the Templars | | LT : | The Nibelungenlied | | RP : | Pope Celestine III | | DL : | Tea arrives in Japan from China |
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| | PH : | Richard I returns from the Crusade and is captured by Leopold, Duke of Austria | | PH : | Dukedom of Styria becomes part of the Babenberg realm of Austria |
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| | PH : | Richard is handed over to Henry VI and imprisoned | | DL : | Indigo and brazilwood imported from India to Britain for dying purposes |
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| | PH : | Richard I is released and crowned for the second time | | PH : | Henry VI conquers Sicily and is crowned King of Sicily | | LT : | The Elder Edda, collection of Scandinavian mythology |
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| | PH : | Alexius III, Byzantine Emperor |
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| | PH : | Peter II, King of Aragon | | PH : | Emeric I, King of Hungary | | DL : | Heidelberg mentioned in records |
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| | PH : | Ottokar I, King of Bohemia | | PH : | The Emperor Henry VI dies; succeeded by Otto IV |
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| | RP : | Pope Innocent III | | RP : | William of Newburgh: Historia rerum Anglicarum |
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| | PH : | King Richard I, Coeur-de-Lion, killed at a siege in France; succeeded by King John (Lackland), the youngest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine GO ! | | PH : | Declaration of Speyer: Ger. princes confirm the right to elect a king | | DL : | Founding of Liverpool |
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