In 1168 during the Northern Crusades, Denmark mounted a crusade led by Bishop Absalon and King Valdemar the Great against the Wends of Rugia in order to convert them to Christianity.

* 1168: King Valdemar I of Denmark conquers Arkona on the Island of Rügen, the strongest pagan fortress and temple in northern Europe.

In 1168, the Danish king, Valdemar I, and his army commander and advisor, Bishop Absalon of Roskilde destroyed the Svetovid temple in the hillfort at Cape Arkona, ending both the territorial and religious autonomy of the Rani, their former monarchs became Danish princes of Rügen.

In 1168, the Danish king Valdemar I conquered Rügen which then became Christian.

The third, and arguably the most important record, comes from the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, who in his Gesta Danorum described the war fought in 1168 by the Danish king Valdemar I against the Wends of Rügen, the conquest of their city at cape Arkona and the destruction of the grand temple of Svantevit that stood there.

* 1168: Danish expedition led by Roskilde archbishop Absalon takes the Principality of Rügen, resulting in conversion of the Rani who became Danish vassals

Of all her influence on culture, Eleanor's time in Poitiers ( 1168 – 1173 ) was perhaps the most critical and yet very little is known about it.

During this time, he composed his acclaimed commentary on the Mishnah in the years 1166 – 1168.

* In 1168, Maimonides published a comprehensive commentary on the Mishnah.

Year 1168 ( MCLXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

* 1168 ( Nin ' an 3, 20th day of the 3rd month ): Takakura succeeds Rokujo on the Chrysanthemum Throne.

While in 1168 the Saxon clan of the Ascanians, allies of Frederick Barbarossa, had failed to install their family member Siegfried, Count of Anhalt, on the archepiscopal see of Bremen, the Ascanians prevailed twofoldly in 1180.

He died on January 17, 1168, and was buried in the Abbey of Watten, between Saint-Omer and Gravelines.

Dissatisfied with the state of Buddhism at the time, in 1168 he set off on his first trip to Mt.

The city played a role in the machinations for control of the Fatimid vizierate: first in 1164, when Shirkuh was besieged in the city by the combined forces of Shiwar and Amalric I of Jerusalem for three months ; then again in 1168 when the city was assaulted again by Amalric's army, who took the city after three days on November 4 and indiscriminately killed the inhabitants.

He died on 5 April 1168, probably at his Northamptonshire castle of Brackley, for his entrails were buried at the hospital in the town.

Frederick wanted to take revenge on Susa for its behaviour of 1168, and on September 30 his forces captured and burned down the town.

According to tradition, Donal Mor O ' Brien, the last King of Munster founded the present cathedral on the site of his palace on King's Island in 1168.

After the Battle of Monte Porzio, in 1168, the Roman people thought it well to take revenge on Albano, who had sided with the city's Emperor Frederick Barbarossa against Rome, and so the town was looted and razed.

Breton nobles strongly opposed this, and more attacks on Brittany followed, first in 1167, then in 1168, and finally in 1173.

However, in 1168, the Christian King Amalric I of Jerusalem, who had been trying for years to launch a successful attack on Egypt in order to expand the Crusader territories, had finally achieved a certain amount of success.

He first achieved distinction as an officer in Nur ad-Din Zengi's army during his uncle Shirkuh's third and final campaign in Egypt ( 1168 – 1169 ); following Nur ad-Din's death in 1174, Al-Adil governed Egypt on behalf of his brother Saladin and mobilized that country's vast resources in support of his brother's campaigns in Syria and his war against the Crusaders ( 1175 – 1183 ).

明菴栄西 Eisai ( Yosai ): came to Tiantai mountain of Zhejiang to study Chan ( Zen ) buddhism ( 1168 AD ); when he returned home in 1193 AD, he brought tea from China to Japan, planted it and wrote the first Japanese treatise on Tea: Kissa Yojoki, 喫茶養生記, Treatise on Drinking Tea for Health.

* During the Southern Song Dynasty a Japanese monk 明菴栄西 Eisai ( Yosai ): came to Tiantai mountain of Zhejiang to study Chan ( Zen ) Buddhism ( 1168 CE ); when he returned home in 1193 CE, he brought tea from China to Japan, planted it and wrote the first Japanese book on Tea: 喫茶養生記, Treatise on Drinking Tea for Health.

After the Novgorodians had expelled their prince, Svyatoslav IV Rostislavich, Roman was sent to Novgorod on April 14, 1168 by his father ( who had earlier occupied Kiev ).

A bishop was appointed to Hebron in 1168 and the new cathedral church of St Abraham was built in the southern part of the Haram.

The Slavic piracy in the Baltic Sea ended with the Danish conquest of the Rani stronghold of Arkona in 1168.

" Franconia remained a Hohenstaufen power base until 1168, when the Bishop of Würzburg was formally ceded the ducal rights in Eastern Franconia.

Henceforward Henry succeeded in keeping the countship of Anjou all his life ; for though he granted it in 1168 to his son Henry the Young King when the latter became old enough to govern it, he absolutely refused to allow him to enjoy his power.

The modern Syldavia was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief called Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors defeated at the battle of Zileheroum and took the name Muskar ruling until 1168.

That design was established in 1168, when funds were provided by the warlord Taira no Kiyomori.

Twice it served as the entry-point for an emperor's triumphal return: in 1126, when John II Komnenos returned from the recapture of his ancestral Kastamonu, and in 1168, when Manuel I Komnenos returned from his victorious campaign against Hungary.

In 1168, when concluding an alliance with Frederick Barbarossa, Henry II seized the chief representatives of Jews and sent them over into Normandy, while tallaging the rest 5, 000 marks.

He saw an opportunity to reverse his bad fortune in 1168 when he met Diarmait Mac Murchada, the former King of Leinster.

In 1168, when concluding an alliance with Frederick Barbarossa, Henry II seized the chief representatives of the Jews and sent them to Normandy, while tallaging the rest 5, 000 marks ( Gervase of Canterbury, ed.

" Franconia remained a Hohenstaufen power base until 1168, when the Bishop of Würzburg was formally ceded the ducal rights in Eastern Franconia.

The Pórtico da Gloria of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is a Romanesque portico by Master Mateo and his workshop at the request of King Ferdinand II of León, who donated for this purpose one hundred maravedís annually between 1168 and 1188, when the latter consisting inscribed in stone in the cathedral as its completion.

In February 1168 the rebels gathered in Jędrzejów, and there they proclaimed Mieszko III as the new High Duke and Casimir was formally invested with Sandomierz.

The Vladimir-Suzdal Principality ( 1168 – 1389 AD ) (, Vladimiro-Suzdal ' skoye knyazhestvo ) or Vladimir-Suzdal Rus ’ (, Vladimirsko-Suzdal ' skaya Rus ’) was one of the major principalities which succeeded Kievan Rus ' in the late 12th century centered in Vladimir-on-Klyazma.

Several campaigns throughout the 12th century ( in 1136, 1150, 1159 and throughout the 1160s ) culminated in the defeat of the Principality of Rugia in 1168.

In 1168 the chief Wendish fortress at Arkona in Rügen, containing the sanctuary of their god Svantevit, was conquered.

After the destruction and Germanization of the Rujani by the Danes, in 1168, the original Slavic name of Rujan was corrupted as Rügen in German and Rugia in Danish.

Tharapita may have been known among the Slavs of the island of Rügen, where Danish crusaders destroyed a pagan idol named Turupit in 1168.