1175
Calendar year
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Year 1175 (MCLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
| Gregorian calendar | 1175 MCLXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1928 |
| Armenian calendar | 624 ԹՎ ՈԻԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5925 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1096–1097 |
| Bengali calendar | 581–582 |
| Berber calendar | 2125 |
| English Regnal year | 21 Hen. 2 – 22 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1719 |
| Burmese calendar | 537 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6683–6684 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3872 or 3665 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3873 or 3666 |
| Coptic calendar | 891–892 |
| Discordian calendar | 2341 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1167–1168 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4935–4936 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1231–1232 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1096–1097 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4275–4276 |
| Holocene calendar | 11175 |
| Igbo calendar | 175–176 |
| Iranian calendar | 553–554 |
| Islamic calendar | 570–571 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōan 5 / Angen 1 (安元元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1082–1083 |
| Julian calendar | 1175 MCLXXV |
| Korean calendar | 3508 |
| Minguo calendar | 737 before ROC 民前737年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −293 |
| Seleucid era | 1486/1487 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1717–1718 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1301 or 920 or 148 — to — ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1302 or 921 or 149 |
Events
By place
Britain
- King Henry II begins living openly with his mistress Rosamund Clifford, raising suspicions about their relationship and alienating Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.[1]
- Eleanor of Aquitaine is held under house arrest at Old Sarum Castle in Wiltshire. She is kept in comfort there – fine clothes for her are dispatched regularly from London.[2]
- Treaty of Windsor: High King Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair relinquishes his title and agrees to submit to Henry II as vassal of Connacht in Ireland.
- Winter – The Massacre of Abergavenny ends with several Welsh noblemen dead, at the orders of Lord William de Braose.
Europe
- Under the admirals of the clan Banu Mardanish, an Almohad fleet suffers a large defeat at the hand of the Portuguese, as they are trying to re-conquer Lisbon.[3]
- Vordingborg Castle is completed by King Valdemar I of Denmark as a defensive fortress.
- The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy is founded.
Levant
Asia
- The Chinese court establishes several government-paper money factories in the cities of Chengdu, Hangzhou and Huizhou. In Hangzhou alone a daily workforce of more than 1,000 men is employed.[5]
- The Namayan Kingdom formed by a confederation of barangays, reaches its peak on Luzon (modern Philippines).[6]
By topic
Religion
- The High Academy of the Bosnian Church in Moštre (modern-day Visoko), is first mentioned in the Vatican archives.
- Count Raymond of Tripoli appoints William II as chancellor of Jerusalem and is elected as archbishop of Tyre.
Births
- February 4 – Nadaungmya, king of Burma (d. 1235)
- Al-Zahir, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (d. 1226)
- Emo of Friesland, Frisian scholar and abbot (d. 1237)
- Frederick I, duke of Austria (d. 1198)
- Henry Audley, English nobleman (d. 1246)
- Herman II, German nobleman (House of Lippe) (d. 1229)
- Hōjō Tokifusa, Japanese nobleman and monk (d. 1240)
- Margaret of Hungary, Byzantine empress (d. 1223)
- Michael Scot, Scottish mathematician and scholar (d. 1232)
- Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (House of Welf) (d. 1218)
- Philip I, margrave of Namur (d. 1212)
- Raymond of Penyafort, Spanish Dominican friar (d. 1275)
- Robert Grosseteste, English statesman (d. 1253)
- Roger III, king of Sicily (House of Hauteville) (d. 1193)
- Śārṅgadeva, Indian musicologist and writer (d. 1247)
- Subutai, Mongol general and strategist (d. 1248)
- Theodore I, emperor of Nicaea (d. 1221)
- Yolanda, empress of the Latin Empire (d. 1219)
Deaths
- January 12 – Yi Ui-bang, Korean military leader (b. 1121)
- January 24 – Ibn Asakir, Syrian historian and mystic (b. 1105)
- March 5 – Frederick of Hallum, Frisian priest and abbot
- May 15 – Mleh I, prince of Armenia
- May 25 – Ishoyahb V, patriarch of the Church of the East
- July 1 – Reginald de Dunstanville, English nobleman (b. 1110)
- July 27 – Ponce de Minerva, French nobleman and general
- October 19 – Andrew of Saint Victor, English abbot and scholar
- November 13 – Henry of France, archbishop of Reims (b. 1121)
- Ibn Saad al-Khair al-Balancy, Arab Andalusian linguist and poet (b. 1116)
- Clementia of Zähringen, duchess of Bavaria and Saxony
- Maria Torribia, Spanish laywoman and hermit
- Nicholas Hagiotheodorites, Byzantine scholar and official