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| 1147 |
| | | Seville falls to the Almohads, from north Africa, who make it their Spanish capital | |
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| 1150 |
| | | The merging of Catalonia with Aragon, by marriage, creates a power in northern Spain of comparable strength to Castile | |
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| 1154 |
| | | Henry II, coming to the throne of England, is king or feudal overlord of an unbroken swathe of territory from the Tweed to the Pyrenees | |
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| 1156 |
| | | Vienna is adopted by the Babenberg rulers as the capital city of Austria | |
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| 1157 |
| | | A Russian prince, Andrei Bogolyubski, makes his capital east of Moscow at Vladimir, where he builds a cathedral and several churches | |
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| 1162 |
| | | Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor to Henry II, is forced by the king to accept the vacant post of archbishop of Canterbury | |
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| c. 1170 |
| | | The English exchequer grows in importance under Henry II, taking its name from the table on which financial calculations are made | |
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| 1171 |
| | | The English king, Henry II, acknowledges Rhys ap Gruffydd as the lord of south Wales | |
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| 1192 |
| | | Yoritomo is given the title sei-i-tai-shogun, beginning centuries of rule by shoguns more powerful than the Japanese emperors | |
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| c. 1200 |
| | | The samurai provide military support for the shogun, in a system similar to feudalism at this same period in Europe | |
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