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  • Robert Warelwast becomes Bishop of Exeter.
  • March 13 - Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
  • August 9 - Deadly earthquake in Aleppo, Syria killing about 230,000 people.
  • August 22 - Battle of the Standard between David I of Scotland and the English. The Scots were defeated.
  • Bavaria was taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.

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