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==== Levant ====
* [[Alice of Champagne]], queen and [[regent]] of [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]], dies after a 3-year reign. She is succeeded by her son, [[Henry I of Cyprus]] ('''the Fat'''), who appoints [[Balian, Lord of Beirut|Balian III of Beirut]] as his ''[[Bailiff (France)|bailli]]'' and confirms [[Philip of Montfort, Lord of Tyre|Philip of Montfort]] in the possession of [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]].<ref>Steven Runciman (1952). ''A History of The Crusades. Vol III: The Kingdom of Acre'', p. 192. {{ISBN|978-0241-29877-0}}.</ref>
* 2 October – [[Damascus]] falls to the [[Ayyubid]] vizier [[Mu'in al-Din Hasan ibn al-Shaykh]] after a siege of some four months.