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Year 1190 (MCXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • June 10 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
  • November 24 – Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure king.
  • The Teutonic Knights are founded to defend the Latin states in the Levant.
  • In Myanmar, Anawrahta's lineage regains control with the assistance of Sri Lanka. Pagan has been in anarchy. The new regime reforms Burmese Buddhism on Sri Lankan Theravada models.

    • Europe

  • February – Anti-Jewish riots break out in England.
  • March 16 – A massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England, led by Richard Malebys, result in the deaths of 150–500 Jews in Clifford's Tower.
  • July 4 – Richard I of England and Philip II of France, having met at Vézelay, set out from Marseille to join the Third Crusade.
  • October 4 – Richard I of England threatens war against Tancred of Sicily, and captures Messina.
  • Battle of Stara Zagora: The Bulgarians defeat Byzantine Emperor Isaac II.
  • The Almohad caliph, Yaqub al-Mansur, fails to reconquer Silves, Portugal.
  • Henry I becomes Duke of Brabant.

    • Arts

  • On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (ar. Kitab fasl al-maqal), by Averroes, is first published.
  • Speculum Virginum, a German manuscript, is published (approximate date).

    • Education

  • First known foreign scholar commences study at what will become the University of Oxford in England, Emo of Friesland.

    • Religion

  • Cartmel Priory is founded in England.
  • Stefan Nemanja founds the Studenica monastery in Serbia.

    • Births

  • Vincent of Beauvais, Dominican friar and encyclopedist (d. 1264)
  • Peter I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1251)
  • William III of Sicily (d. 1198)

    • Deaths

  • March 15 – Isabella of Hainault, queen of Philip II of France (b. 1170)
  • June 10 – Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, (drowned) (b. 1122)
  • July 25 – Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (b. c. 1160)
  • September 20 – Adelog of Hildesheim, German bishop
  • Ranulf de Glanvill, chief justiciar of England
  • Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester

    • References

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