1196

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1160s  1170s  1180s  – 1190s –  1200s  1210s  1220s
Years:	1193 1194 1195 – 1196 – 1197 1198 1199

Events

• Spring, London, popular uprising of the poor against the rich led by William Fitz Osbern.
• According to a popular legend, Prince Madog of Gwynedd reached North America in what is present-day Alabama.
• Stefan Prvovencani becomes Grand Župan of Serbia
• Creation of water boards in the region of present-day Netherlands, thereby being one of the oldest democratic entities still in existence in the world today.

Births

• January 3 — Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
• Alice of Champagne, daughter of Henry II of Champagne and regent of Jerusalem (d. 1246)

Deaths

• August 15 — Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173)
• King Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1152)
• Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
• William Fitz Osbern
• Vsevolod Svyatoslavich, Prince of Trubchevsk and Kursk