By place

Europe

• Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
• A Benedictine priory is founded at Birkenhead, England, resulting in the first recorded Mersey Ferry.
• Christchurch Priory is founded in Dorset, England.
• Castle Rising is built in Norfolk, England by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
• The University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, is founded.
• Christian Malone writes his Irish Chronology (Chronicum Scotorum).
• The city of Neuruppin is founded in Brandenburg, Germany.
• The city of Rinteln is founded in Lower Saxony, Germany.
• Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in the Low Countries.
• Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences.
• Dryburgh Abbey is founded by Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland).
• The first doctorate degree is awarded in Paris, France.^[1]
• The Byzantine Empire defeats the Serbian Grand Principality and the Kingdom of Hungary in the Battle of Tara.

Middle East

• Joscelin II of Edessa is taken prisoner during the Second Crusade.
• The city of Ashkelon is fortified with 53 towers, by its Fatimid rulers.
• The earliest textual reference is made to Gypsies, working as musicians in Constantinople.

Asia

• The temple at Angkor Wat is completed in Khmer (present-day Cambodia).