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1195
Calendar year
Year 1195 (MCXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
01Events
- June 1, Battle of Shamkor: Georgians defeat the Ildenizids of Azerbaijan.
- July 18, Battle of Alarcos: Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur decisively defeats Castilian King Alfonso VIII.
- The Priory of St Mary's is founded in Bushmead.
- Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II, and becomes Byzantine Emperor.
- Temüjin, in alliance with the Jin dynasty of China, launches his first major campaign against the Tatars. This military action marks a new, formalized phase in Temüjin's rise to power and his ongoing unification of the various steppe tribes.
- The Abbasid Caliph, Al-Nasir, takes military action against the Ayyubid Sultan, Al-Aziz Uthman, who controls Egypt and Syria. The Caliph mobilizes his forces and marches into Mesopotamia, directly challenging Ayyubid authority in the region of Iraq.
02Births
- August 15 , Anthony of Padua, Portuguese preacher and saint (d. 1231)
- Princess Shōshi of Japan (d. 1211)
- Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester (d. 1265)
03Deaths
- March 3 , Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (b. c. 1125)
- August 6 , Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
- October 13 , Gualdim Pais, Great Master of the Templars in Portugal (b. 1118)
- December 17 , Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
- Ascelina, French nun and mystic (b. 1121)
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