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After Latin Christian forces fail to retake Jerusalem, the Third Crusade ends. Richard and Salah al-Din negotiate a three-year truce that allows the Crusaders to keep Acre and a strip of land along the coast and to have free access to Jerusalem. While returning from the Crusade, Richard I is captured by Leopold, Duke of Austria, and is held for ransom until February 1194.
Muslim Ghurid leader Mu'izz al-Din returns to win a great victory that opens the way for his subordinates to establish Ghurid control over northern India.
On the death of Japanese emperor Shirakawa II, Minamoto Yoritomo seizes power and names himself shogun; Japan is ruled by a shogunate for the next seven hundred years.
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