1182 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Canute VI crowned king of Denmark
• Serbia allies itself with Hungary to gain independence
• First Sejm, or Polish Parliment, convenes at Łęczyca
• Jews expelled from Paris by Philip Augustus
• Maronites reestablish their affiliation with Catholicism
• Venetians massacred during a riot in Constantinople
• Raynald of Chatillon instigates another war between Saladin and Baldwin IV
• Hungary sacks the city of Belgrade

Births

• Alexius IV Angelus, Byzantine Emperor
• Minamoto no Yoriie, second shogun of the Kamakura shogunate

Deaths

• Valdemar I, King of Denmark
• Кіры́ла Ту́раўскі, or Cyril of Turaw, Bishop of Belarus, Christian Orthodox Saint
• Simon I, count of Saarbrücken