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Taira Kyomori places his two-year-old grandson on the throne of Japan as Emperor Antoku, provoking a rebellion led by Minamoto Yoritomo, whose father Kyomori had executed after his coup attempt in 1160.
Manuel I Comnenus dies and is succeeded as Byzantine emperor by his eleven-year-old son, Alexius II Comnenus, whose mother, Mary, daughter of Raymond of Antioch, serves as regent. She entrusts the government to Manuel's unpopular nephew Alexius.
Louis VII (the Young) dies without issue and is succeeded on the French throne by his brother Philip II Augustus.
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