Certainty: 2 Georgios Tornikes wrote to the metropolitan of Athens, having refused the see of Corinth. On the list of acceptable candidates to fill the see of Corinth, Stephanos the repherendarios had been first, Georgios Tornikes second and a certain protekdikos third. However all had turned down the see. Tornikes' decision had been based on the opinion of Theodoros Pantechnes, who had advised against acceptance, presumably on financial grounds. Tornikes had accepted the advice, despite the fact that his mother lived near Corinth. He said little in his letter to the metropolitan about the latter's personal affairs, assuming that Elias, his brother, would already have informed him on this subject. Tornikes castigated a certain "Polyphemos" as a persistent critic of the metropolitan of Athens (probably meaning Soterichos Panteugenos). Turning to the problems of the Pleurites family, he asked the metropolitan to establish justice for Demetrios, who (he said) had been wronged by his brother, who was trying to sieze the whole of their paternal inheritance. The letter-carrier (who presumably wanted to live in Athens) was recommended to Georgios the metropolitan as a friend, intelligent and potentially grateful. Tornikes finally sent greetings to his brother, Leon, and his cousin Euthymios
Certainty: 2 Tzetzes wrote to the grammatikos Konstantinos Mitzalas, who was having problems with the empress.
Certainty: 2 Tzetzes wrote to thank the grammatikos of the phylax for sending medicine.
Certainty: 2 Tzetzes wrote to thank Alexios Pantechnes for spices & a tame bird.
Certainty: 2 Tzetzes wrote to Basil of Ohrid, now as Archbishop of Thessalonike.
Certainty: 2 Tzetzes replied only briefly to Konstantinos Bathyrreites, who had praised a previous letter of his.
Certainty: 2 Tzetzes wrote to Manuel I over the award of a triumphal procession to an unidentified ‘philosopher’.
Certainty: 2 'Ayn Tab & Bahasna surrendered by men of Mas'ud of Ikonion to Nur al-Din, after a siege. Mas'ud, sultan of Ikonion had taken Bahasna from the Armenians around 1150; his men now lost it to Nur al-Din of Aleppo, after a siege. He also captured 'Ayn Tab
Certainty: 2 Manuel led large forces against Hungary, making Geza sue for peace; Manuel eventually agreed.
Certainty: 2 Diplomatic preliminaries to the Italian expedition.
Certainty: 2 First successes in Italy: capture of Bari.
Certainty: 2 Georgios Tornikes announced to various dignitaries his election as metropolitan of Ephesos. Georgios Tornikes had been made a priest, on the way to becoming metropolitan of Ephesos, and he sent letters to three major imperial dignities, asking for their sympathy and help, without which his tenure could not be successful. They were Ioannes Kamateros, the logothetes of the dromos, Andronikos Doukas Kamateros, the sebastos and megas droungarios, and Theodoros Stypeiotes, the epi tou kanikleiou. He stressed that as a simple scholar he was unfit for the role he had to play, contrasting himself with his correspondents, central persons in Manuel I's administration; he was worried about the task he had undertaken but certain that he could not refuse it. He also sent his cousin Euthymios to prepare Ephesos for his arrival, entrusting him with three letters to local dignitaries: the metropolitan of Smyrna and Alexios Giphardos, the doux of Thrakesion, together with the latter's representative at Ephesos. They were all informed of his coming and asked to co-operate with Euthymios
Certainty: 2 Campaign around Andria.
Certainty: 2 Georgios Tornikes wrote three unhappy letters on his first arrival in Ephesos. Soon after arrival in Ephesos, he wrote three letters to his acquaintances: to Georgios (Bourtzes), metropolitan of Athens, from whom he had no news; to Eirene Doukaina, daughter of Anna Komnene, without seeking to add to her burdens, and with greetings to her don Alexios; and to Theodoros Pantechnes, telling him that Ephesos had deteriorated markedly since he saw it. The message of the three letters was similar: he was dismayed by coming face-to-face with the problems he had taken on, and wished he had not. His great church, the basilica of Hagios Ioannes, was in a bad state with falling masonry, suitable only for birds and animals. He was to return to Constantinople to lobby Manuel I, who had just returned to the capital
Certainty: 1 Tzetzes made the first chronological collection of his letters.
Certainty: 1 Cuman invaders raided the cities along the Danube, killing Kalamanos, then retreating.