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| 1170 |
| | | Four knights, acting on an unguarded hint from Henry II, murder Thomas Becket on December 29 in his cathedral at Canterbury | |
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| 1171 |
| | | Saladin deposes the Fatimid caliph and brings Egypt back to orthodoxy, acknowledging the rule of the Sunni caliph in Baghdad | |
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| 1171 |
| | | The English king, Henry II, acknowledges Rhys ap Gruffydd as the lord of south Wales | |
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| 1171 |
| | | Henry II, the king of England, summons the Irish and Norman lords to do homage to him in Dublin | |
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| 1174 |
| | | The Scottish king, William the Lion, is captured raiding into Northumberland and is taken south with his feet tied beneath his horse | |
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| 1175 |
| | | The Gothic style is first seen in Britain in the new east end of Canterbury cathedral | |
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| 1176 |
| | | Construction begins on London Bridge, the first stone bridge to be built across a tidal waterway | |
|  | 'Old London Bridge 1745', watercolour by Dodd
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| 1176 |
| | | The first known eisteddfod is held during Christmas festivities at Rhys ap Gruffydd's court in Cardigan castle | |
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| 1179 |
| | | In a treaty signed at Cazorla, the kings of Castile and Aragon agree on a plan of cooperation against the Muslims | |
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| c. 1180 |
| | | The shared memories and legends of Nordic peoples are brought together in a great German epic, the Nibelungenlied | |
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