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====Byzantine Empire====
* [[Andronicus I Comnenus]] becomes [[Byzantine Emperor]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swVBDgAAQBAJ&q=1183+Andronikos+I+Komnenos&pg=PA111|title=Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond|last=Eastmond|first=Antony|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9781351957229|series=Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs|volume=10|location=London and New York|pages=157|language=en|orig-year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KIFJiOCSYc8C&q=1183+Andronikos+I+Komnenos&pg=PA309|title=A History of Byzantium|last=Gregory|first=Timothy E.|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2010|isbn=9781444359978|edition=  Second|location=Malden, MA, Oxford and Chichester, UK|pages=309|language=en|orig-year=2005}}</ref>
* [[October]] &ndash; [[Alexios II Komnenos]] is murdered, after a 3-year reign at Constantinople.   Andronikos I, 64, is proclaimed emperor of the [[Byzantine Empire]] before the crowd on the terrace of the [[Arslan Hane, Istanbul|Church of Christ of the Chalke]]. He marries Alexios' widow, the 11-year-old [[Agnes of France, Byzantine Empress|Agnes of France]], and makes a treaty with [[Republic of Venice|Venice]] in November in which he promised a yearly indemnity as compensation for Venetian losses during the Massacre of the Latins.<ref>Steven Runciman (1952). ''A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem'', p. 349. {{ISBN|978-0-241-29876-3}}.</ref>