History
1170
General
Population: 370 Million*
- Entertainment: Chretien de Troyes writes "Lancelot" about love
- Religion: Pope Alexander III establishes rules for canonization of saints
Pope Alexander III forces England to receive archbishop Becket.
Maimonides's Mishneh Torah
- Deaths: Thomas à Becket murdered, Albert the Bear (Fitzurse) the Knight who slep Becket,
Africa
- Egypt: End of Fatimid style in Syrian-Egyptian architecture as Saladin of Damascus takes Egypt
Americas
- Mexico: Toltec's capital at Tula overthrown by Chichimec nomads
- North America: Supposedly Owain Gwynedd the Welshman landed in US region
Europe
- General: Inquest of Sheriffs results in strengthening the Exchequer
- England: Becket publishes papal letters voiding Constitutions of Clarendon
Becket starts excommunications
Although Henry II and Thomas à Becket formally reconciled, Becket returns to Canterbury and is murdered by four Norman knights
Oxford University founded (or 1167)
- France: University of Paris founded
- Ireland: Richard de Clare (Strongbow) Earl of Pembroke invades Ireland and is made king next year
Middle East
- Syria: Quake kills 15,000
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