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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1176 1177 1178 – 1179 – 1180 1181 1182

1179 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

1179 in poetry v • d • e

1179 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1179 MCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1932
Armenian calendar	628 ԹՎ ՈԻԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-665 – -664
Berber calendar	2129
Buddhist calendar	1723
Burmese calendar	541
Byzantine calendar	6687 – 6688
Chinese calendar	戊戌年十一月廿二日 (3815/3875-11-22) — to — 己亥年十二月初二日 (3816/3876-12-2)
Coptic calendar	895 – 896
Ethiopian calendar	1171 – 1172
Hebrew calendar	4939 – 4940
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1234 – 1235
- Shaka Samvat	1101 – 1102
- Kali Yuga	4280 – 4281
Holocene calendar	11179
Iranian calendar	557 – 558
Islamic calendar	574 – 575
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3512
Thai solar calendar	1722
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• June 19—Battle of Kalvskinnet (outside Nidaros, Norway): Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• The Third Council of the Lateran condemns Waldensians and Cathars as heretics, institutes a reformation of clerical life, and creates the first "ghettos" for Jews. It also rules that the Pope must receive 2/3 of the cardinals' votes to be elected.
• Afonso I is recognized as the true King of Portugal by Pope Alexander III, bringing Portugal the protection of the Catholic Church against the Castilian monarchy.
• November 1 – Philip II is crowned King of France. He assumes his office, however, in the next year, following the death of his father Louis VII.
• The city of Aberdeen is chartered by William the Lion.
• Westminster School is founded by the monks of Westminster Abbey (by papal command).
• The Drigung Kagyu school of Kagyu Buddhism is founded.
• The Maya city of Chichen Itza is sacked and burned by Hunac Ceel, the Mayapan king.

[edit] Births

• John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (approximate date; d. 1236)
• Mikhail of Kiev (approximate date; d. 1246)
• Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (approximate date; d. 1239)
• Shimazu Tadahisa, warlord of the Shimazu clan of Japan (d. 1227)
• William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (d. 1221)
• Yaqut al-Hamawi, Arab geographer (d. 1229)

[edit] Deaths

• September 17—Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess, mystic writer, and composer (b. 1098)
• Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (b. 1138)