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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1178 1179 1180 – 1181 – 1182 1183 1184

1181 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

1181 in poetry v • d • e

1181 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1181 MCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1934
Armenian calendar	630 ԹՎ ՈԼ
Bahá'í calendar	-663 – -662
Bengali calendar	588
Berber calendar	2131
Buddhist calendar	1725
Burmese calendar	543
Byzantine calendar	6689 – 6690
Chinese calendar	庚子年十二月十四日 (3817/3877-12-14) — to — 辛丑年十一月廿四日 (3818/3878-11-24)
Coptic calendar	897 – 898
Ethiopian calendar	1173 – 1174
Hebrew calendar	4941 – 4942
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1236 – 1237
- Shaka Samvat	1103 – 1104
- Kali Yuga	4282 – 4283
Holocene calendar	11181
Iranian calendar	559 – 560
Islamic calendar	576 – 577
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3514
Thai solar calendar	1724
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Sources

[edit] Events

• Jayavarman VII defeats the Cham and assumes control of the Khmer kingdom.
• The word Albigensians is first used by chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois to describe the inhabitants of Albi, France.
• September 1—Pope Lucius III succeeds Pope Alexander III as the 171st pope.
• Chinese and Japanese astronomers observe what has since come to be understood as a supernova. One of only eight supernovae in the Milky Way observed in recorded history, it appears in the constellation Cassiopeia and is visible in the night sky for about 185 days. The radio source 3C58 is thought to be the remnant from this event.
• The Yowa era, marked by famine, begins in Japan.

[edit] Births

• September 26—Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
• Teresa of Portugal (d. 1250)

[edit] Deaths

• January 30—Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• March 17—Henry I of Champagne, count of Champagne
• June 30—Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
• August 30—Pope Alexander III (b. c. 1100–1105)
• Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese warlord (b. 1118)
• As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (b. 1163)

[edit] Sources

http://www.historyorb.com/date/1181

http://www.historyorb.com/birthdays/date/1181

http://www.answers.com/topic/1181

http://seds.org/~spider/spider/misc/sn1181.html