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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1174 1175 1176 – 1177 – 1178 1179 1180

1177 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1177 in poetry v • d • e

1177 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1177 MCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1930
Armenian calendar	626 ԹՎ ՈԻԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-667 – -666
Berber calendar	2127
Buddhist calendar	1721
Burmese calendar	539
Byzantine calendar	6685 – 6686
Chinese calendar	丙申年十一月三十日 (3813/3873-11-30) — to — 丁酉年十二月初十日 (3814/3874-12-10)
Coptic calendar	893 – 894
Ethiopian calendar	1169 – 1170
Hebrew calendar	4937 – 4938
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1232 – 1233
- Shaka Samvat	1099 – 1100
- Kali Yuga	4278 – 4279
Holocene calendar	11177
Iranian calendar	555 – 556
Islamic calendar	572 – 573
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3510
Thai solar calendar	1720
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Heads of State

[edit] Events

• March – Treaty of Venice: Frederick I Barbarossa acknowledges Alexander III as Pope.
• August 1 − Holy Roman Empire renounces any claims on the territory of Rome.
• September 27—Pope Alexander III sends a letter to Prester John, believing he is real.
• November 25—Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin.
• During the third year of the Angen era in Japan, a fire devastates Kyoto.
• Benedictus Abbas becomes abbot of Peterborough.
• Byland Abbey is founded in Yorkshire by the Cistercians.
• Casimir II becomes duke of Poland.
• The Cham sack the Khmer capital of Angkor Wat.
• Roger de Moulins becomes Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
• Moscow is burned down and its inhabitants are killed.
• Puigcerdà is founded by Alfonso II of Aragon.
• Leopold V becomes Duke of Austria.
• The Estonians attack Pskov during the winter.

[edit] Births

• Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (d. 1186)
• Robert de Ros, English baron (d. 1226)
• Philip of Swabia, rival of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1208)

[edit] Deaths

• January 13—Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
• William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, father of Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. early 1140s)
• Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1095)

[edit] Heads of State

• England—Henry II (reigned 1154–1189)
• France—Louis VII (reigned 1137–1180)
• Byzantine Empire—Manuel I Comnenus (reigned 1143–1180)
• Alexander III (pope 1159–1181)
• Song China – Song Xiaozong (宋孝宗) (reigned 1162–1189)