Year 1195 (MCXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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• June 1 – Battle of Shamkor: Georgians defeat the Ildenizids of Azerbaijan.

• July 18 – Battle of Alarcos: Almohad ruler Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur decisively defeats Castilian King Alfonso VIII.

• The Priory of St Mary's is founded in Bushmead.

• Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II, and becomes Byzantine Emperor.

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• Temüjin, in alliance with the Jin dynasty of China, launches his first major campaign against the Tatars. This military action marks a new, formalized phase in Temüjin's rise to power and his ongoing unification of the various steppe tribes.

• The Abbasid Caliph, Al-Nasir, takes military action against the Ayyubid Sultan, Al-Aziz Uthman, who controls Egypt and Syria. The Caliph mobilizes his forces and marches into Mesopotamia, directly challenging Ayyubid authority in the region of Iraq.

Births

• August 15 Anthony of Padua, Portuguese preacher and saint (d. 1231)

• Princess Shōshi of Japan (d. 1211)

• Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester (d. 1265)

Deaths

• March 3 Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (b. c. 1125)

• August 6 Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)

• October 13 Gualdim Pais, Great Master of the Templars in Portugal (b. 1118)

• December 17 Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)

• Ascelina, French nun and mystic (b. 1121)

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