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Louis was murdered in 1231 on a bridge in Kelheim . The crime was never cleared up since the murderer was immediately lynched. Due to the following aversion of the Wittelsbach family the city of Kelheim lost its status as one of the ducal residences. Louis was buried in the crypt of Scheyern Abbey .
1173
Dec 23
| 1173 • The construction of a campanile which will become the Leaning Tower of Pisa begins. |
1204
Age: 29y
marriageLudmilla Of Bohemia |
| 1204 • Baldwin, Count of Flanders is crowned emperor of the Latin Empire a week after his election by the members of the Fourth Crusade. |
1206
Apr 7
Age: 32y
birth of childOtto II Wittelsbach Kelheim, Bavaria ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1206 • King Valdemar II and Archbishop Andreas Sunonis raid Saaremaa Island, Estonia, forcing the islanders to submit. The Danes build a fortress, but finding no volunteers to man it, they burn it down themselves and leave the island. |
1231
Sep 15
Age: 57y
| 1231 • After a bizarre weather phenomena of yellowish clouds and dust chokes the air around Hangzhou, Song Dynasty, China, obscuring the sky and sun, a fire breaks out at night in the southeast of the city, which continues into the next day. Fighting the flames is difficult due to limited visibility. When the fires are extinguished, it is discovered that an entire district of some 10,000 houses in the southeast of the city were consumed by the flames. |