information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1195: Folquet de Marselha gives up poetry to take up the religious life...

The 1190s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1190, and ended on December 31, 1199. Spring – A German expeditionary force (some...

in poetry 2022 in poetry 2021 in poetry 2020 in poetry - Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass 2019 in poetry 2018 in poetry 2017 in poetry...

through 1205/1210, author of lais in Anglo-Norman Jean Bodel Undated troubadors Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s)...

innovations in the waka poetic form and for compiling Senzai Wakashū ("Collection of a Thousand Years"), the seventh Imperial anthology of waka poetry,; father...

text in a Venetian vernacular. It is preserved in manuscript in the Catalogo de Vescovi (bishops' catalogue) of the Museo Civico (city museum) in Belluno...

In the 1190s, Shikishi took Buddhist vows to become a nun and adopted the name Shōnyohō, as she had become a believer in Pure Land Buddhism. Also in the...

year of the 1190s decade. January 7 – Venus occults Jupiter. April 28 – Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, is assassinated in Tyre, only...

only defeated in 1189. Then, the authority to the Kamakura rulers waned in the 1190s and power was transferred to the powerful Hōjō clan in the early 13th...

island in the middle of the Seine River, near Vernon in Normandy. The agreement recognizes John as overlord of most of the English owned lands in France...

I (Komnenos) orders the arrest of all Venetians in his empire, and seizes their ships and goods. In September, Doge Vitale II Michiel leads a Venetian...

so, she would not appoint him the title. The first nunnery is inaugurated in Iceland, the Kirkjubæjar Abbey. Caliph al-Nasir marries Princess Seljuki....

Theravada Buddhism to Southeast Asia, having sent missionaries previously in the 1190s. The religion spread and eventually displaced Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism...

forces, who are scattered and forced to retreat. March – Byzantine officials in Adrianople revolt and expel Latin administrators, requesting Bulgarian support...

only eight supernovae in the Milky Way observed in recorded history. It appears in the constellation Cassiopeia and is visible in the night sky for about...

Al-Zahir receives Aleppo (with lands in northern Syria), and Turan-Shah receives Yemen. The other dominions and fiefs in the Oultrejordain (also called Lordship...

of the city to the ground; over 3,000 people die, many of them by drowning in the River Thames. According to a contemporary account: "An awful fire broke...

Antiocheis is an epic poem by Joseph of Exeter, written in Latin soon after the year 1190, when Joseph returned to England from the Third Crusade on the...

have been debated among literary scholars and historians. In the 1190s, Robert de Boron in Joseph d'Arimathie [fr] portrayed the Grail as Jesus's vessel...

widow, the 11-year-old Agnes of France, and makes a treaty with Venice in November in which he promised a yearly indemnity as compensation for Venetian losses...

starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In English law, 1189 - specifically the beginning of the reign of Richard I -...

ceremony takes place at the church of St. Hilary in Poitiers. A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades in Catalonia; this event marks the end of the pacification...

troubadour poetry. Generally regarded as the most important troubadour in both poetry and music, his 18 extant melodies of 45 known poems in total is the...

strength of the defenders. Sultan Al-Kamil, in command of the Egyptian forces, is almost overthrown by a conspiracy in his entourage. He considers fleeing to...

of Aquitaine is held under house arrest at Old Sarum Castle in Wiltshire. She is kept in comfort there – fine clothes for her are dispatched regularly...

story to the 1190s had been first proposed by John Major in his Historia Majoris Britanniæ (1521), (and he also may have been influenced in so doing by...

supplies, to make Manuel's march more difficult, and harass the Byzantine army, in order to force it into the Meander Valley. Kilij Arslan II, ruler of the Sultanate...

(Barbarossa) is crowned King of Burgundy at Arles. He will repeat the ceremony in 1186. Returning to Germany, he begins proceedings against Henry III (the Lion)...

Alexios III Angelos, who resides in the Palace of Blachernae, dispatches a small force under Alexios Palaiologos, Alexios' son-in-law, who is regarded as his...

Frederick I, is elected "King of Germany" by his supporters at Mühlhausen in Thuringia. Archbishop Adolf of Cologne elects Otto of Brunswick, son of Henry...