{"id":87,"date":"2010-02-04T02:25:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/?p=87"},"modified":"2017-04-21T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:35:36","slug":"12thcentury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/history\/12thcentury\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelfth Century History"},"content":{"rendered":"

1100<\/strong> Latin Kingdom established by Crusaders, protected by Knights of St John the Hospitaller<\/p>\n

1107<\/strong> Chinese money printed in 3 colors to stop counterfeit.<\/p>\n

1111<\/strong> Henry V crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Paschal II.<\/p>\n

1119<\/strong> Knights Templar Order established in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

1122<\/strong> Concordat of Worms<\/a>, the Pactum Calixtinum.<\/p>\n

1123<\/strong> First Lateran Council.<\/p>\n

1124<\/strong> Honorius II is elected pope.<\/p>\n

1138<\/strong> Saladin, a Kurd, born as Yusuf Salah ad-Din Ayyub in Tikrit, Iraq. Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria kills 230,000 people.<\/p>\n

1145<\/strong> Second Crusade led by King Louis VIII of France and Emperor Conrad III.<\/p>\n

1147<\/strong> Moscow built by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky.<\/p>\n

1150<\/strong> The temple complex of Angkor Wat built by King Suryavarman II in Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia).<\/p>\n

1153<\/strong> The world’s first restaurant opens in Kaifeng, China. (It is still operating.)<\/p>\n

1154<\/strong> Arab geographer Sharif al-Idrisi maps the known world while in the service of the Norman king of Sicily, Roger II.<\/p>\n

1155<\/strong> Map of western China printed (oldest known printed map).<\/p>\n

1162<\/strong> Genghis Khan born.<\/p>\n

1172<\/strong> King Henry II of England is declared Feudal Lord of Ireland by the Pope.<\/p>\n

1173<\/strong> Construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa<\/a> begins. Canute I Eriksson becomes King of all Sweden.<\/p>\n

1174<\/strong> Muslims capture Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

1182<\/strong> Magnetic compass invented. The type of ore that attracted iron was known as magnesian stone because it was discovered in Magnesia in Asia Minor. The discovery of the magnet’s use in determining direction was made independently in China and Europe, the latter by English theologian and natural philosopher Alexander Neckam.<\/p>\n

1187<\/strong> At the Battle of Hattin, Horns of Hattin, Muslim armies under Saladin wipe out the majority of the Crusader forces (led by Guy of Lusignan, also known as Guy of Jerusalem or Guy of Cyprus), reconquering Jerusalem and other cities. Saladin allows Jews to return to Jerusalem – the first time they would return since the Christians took the city in 1099.<\/p>\n

1189<\/strong> Richard I, known as Coeur de Lion or Richard the Lionheart<\/a>, becomes King of England. Third Crusade starts.<\/p>\n

1190<\/strong> The Louvre Museum in Paris built as a fortress.<\/p>\n

1192<\/strong> Samurai, the warrior class, and Shoguns emerge as the ruling class in Japan and remained in power with little interruption until the late 19th century.<\/p>\n

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