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==== Commerce ====
* [[May 2]] &ndash; Richard I grants [[Portsmouth]] market-town status with a royal charter. He orders the construction of docks on [[The Solent]] – having seen that the harbour is a perfect base for trade and the English fleet.<ref>Quail, Sarah (1994). ''The Origins of Portsmouth and the First Charter'', pp. 14–18. City of Portsmouth. {{ISBN|0-901559-92-X}}.</ref>

==== Economy and society ====
* [[Hubert Walter]], vice-[[regent]] in the absence of Richard I, institutes the office of [[coroner]] to keep records of crown pleas. He also presides over the feudal judgment of John and makes an inquiry into land tenure.<ref name="auto"/>

==== Religion ====
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Michael the Syrian]] reconsecrates the [[Mor Bar Sauma Monastery]], which he reconstructed after its destruction by a fire. The monastery stays a center of the [[Syriac Orthodox Church]] until the end of the thirteenth century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Micheau |first1=Francoise |editor1-last=Angold |editor1-first=Michael |title=The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 5, Eastern Christianity |date=17 August 2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-81113-2 |page=399 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xUV-nMxNGsC |access-date=6 February 2025 |language=en |chapter=Copts, Melkites, Nestorians and Jacobites}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] &ndash; A fire devastates [[Chartres Cathedral]]. Only the crypt, the towers, and the new facade survives. Funds are collected from nobles, as well as small donations from ordinary people, to start the rebuilding.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ian|last=Sutton|title=Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present|location=London|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=1999|isbn=978-0-500-20316-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/westernarchitect00utt}}</ref>
* The [[Carthusians|Carthusian]] [[Cartoixa d'Escaladei|monastery of Scala Dei]] is founded in the region of [[Montsant range|Montsant]] in [[Catalonia]].<ref name="Guide">{{cite web |title=Carthusian Monastery of Escaladei |url=https://patrimoni.gencat.cat/en/monuments/monumentos/carthusian-monastery-of-escaladei |website=Monuments de Catalunya |publisher=Generalitat de Catalunya |access-date=26 November 2023}}</ref></onlyinclude>