1177
Calendar year
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Year 1177 (MCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
| Gregorian calendar | 1177 MCLXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1930 |
| Armenian calendar | 626 ԹՎ ՈԻԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5927 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1098–1099 |
| Bengali calendar | 583–584 |
| Berber calendar | 2127 |
| English Regnal year | 23 Hen. 2 – 24 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1721 |
| Burmese calendar | 539 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6685–6686 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3874 or 3667 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3875 or 3668 |
| Coptic calendar | 893–894 |
| Discordian calendar | 2343 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1169–1170 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4937–4938 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1233–1234 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1098–1099 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4277–4278 |
| Holocene calendar | 11177 |
| Igbo calendar | 177–178 |
| Iranian calendar | 555–556 |
| Islamic calendar | 572–573 |
| Japanese calendar | Angen 3 / Jishō 1 (治承元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1084–1085 |
| Julian calendar | 1177 MCLXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3510 |
| Minguo calendar | 735 before ROC 民前735年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −291 |
| Seleucid era | 1488/1489 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1719–1720 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 1303 or 922 or 150 — to — མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 1304 or 923 or 151 |
Events
January–December
- January – Eystein Meyla, leader of the Birkebeiner in Norway, is killed. Sverre Sigurdson (Later, King Sverre I, of Norway) becomes the new leader.[1]
- January 13 – Leopold V becomes Duke of Austria.[2]
- March – Treaty of Venice: Frederick I Barbarossa acknowledges Alexander III as Pope, after a diplomatic mediation by Venetian doge Sebastiano Ziani.[3][4]
- March 16 – The Spanish Award is signed and witnessed by, among others, Robert III de Stuteville and John of Greenford[5][6]
- August 1 – The Holy Roman Empire renounces any claims on the territory of Rome.[7]
- September 27 – Pope Alexander III sends a letter to Prester John, believing he is real.[8][9]
- November 25 – Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin.[10]
Date unknown
- During the third year of the Angen era in Japan, a fire devastates Kyoto.[11]
- During the winter, the Estonians attack Pskov.[12]
- Casimir II overthrows his brother Mieszko III the Old, to become High Duke of Poland.[13]
- The Cham sack the Khmer capital of Angkor. The date is disputed.[14][15]
- Moscow is burned down by Gleb I, prince of Ryazan, and its inhabitants are killed.[16]
- A civil war breaks out in the Republic of Florence, between the Uberti Family and their consular opponent.[17][18]
- Puigcerdà is founded by Alfonso II of Aragon.[19]
- Byland Abbey is established on its final site in Yorkshire, England, by the Cistercians.[20]
- Abbas Benedictus becomes abbot of Peterborough in England.[21]
- Roger de Moulins becomes Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.[22]
- possible date – Richard FitzNeal begins to write his treatise Dialogus de Scaccario ("Dialogue concerning the Exchequer") in England.[23][24]
- The union of Egypt and Syria under Sultan Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub, the foundation of the Ayyubid Sultanate.
Births
- February/March – Philip of Swabia, rival of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1208)[25][26]
- August – Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (d. 1186)[27]
- Marie of Oignies, French beguin (d. 1213)[28]
- Prithviraj Chauhan, Indian ruler of Ajmer (d. 1192)
- Sylvester Gozzolini, Italian founder of the Sylvestrines (d. 1267)[29]
Deaths
- January 13 – Henry II, Duke of Austria (b. 1107)[30]
- January – Eystein Meyla, leader of the Birkebeiner in Norway. (b. 1157)[1]
- June – William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, father of Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. early 1140s)[31][32]
- probable – Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1095)[33]