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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1184 1185 1186 – 1187 – 1188 1189 1190

1187 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

1187 in poetry v • d • e

1187 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1187 MCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1940
Armenian calendar	636 ԹՎ ՈԼԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-657 – -656
Bengali calendar	594
Berber calendar	2137
Buddhist calendar	1731
Burmese calendar	549
Byzantine calendar	6695 – 6696
Chinese calendar	丙午年十一月二十日 (3823/3883-11-20) — to — 丁未年十一月三十日 (3824/3884-11-30)
Coptic calendar	903 – 904
Ethiopian calendar	1179 – 1180
Hebrew calendar	4947 – 4948
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1242 – 1243
- Shaka Samvat	1109 – 1110
- Kali Yuga	4288 – 4289
Holocene calendar	11187
Iranian calendar	565 – 566
Islamic calendar	582 – 583
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3520
Thai solar calendar	1730
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• May 1—Battle of Cresson: Saladin defeats the crusaders.
• July 4—Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
• September 20—October 2—Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem.
• October 21—Pope Gregory VIII succeeds Pope Urban III as the 173rd pope.
• October 29—Pope Gregory VIII issues the bull Audita tremendi, proposing the Third Crusade.
• December 19—Pope Clement III succeeds Pope Gregory VIII as the 174th pope.
• Alexius Branas attempts to seize Constantinople in defiance of his master Isaac II Angelus.
• The Cathedral of St. Jacob is consecrated in Szczecin, Pomerania.
• Estonians, Curonians and Karelians destroy Sigtuna and kill the archbishop.
• Knut Eriksson builds a castle in the island of Stockholm.
• The Toltecs are deposed at Chichen Itza.
• Zen Buddhism comes to Japan.
• King Jayavarman VII of Ankor Vat defeats the Cham conquerors.
• Ghorin Muhammed conquers Punjab.
• Genoa takes Bonifacio (in Corsica) from Pisa.
• Glanvill, an official of King Henry II, describes how villeins can be free (approximate date).

[edit] Births

• September 5—King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
• Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1203)
• Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1239)

[edit] Deaths

• July 4—Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch (executed) (b. c. 1125)
• October 19—Pope Urban III
• November 9—Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
• December 17—Pope Gregory VIII (b. c. 1100)
• Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator of scientific works (b. c. 1114)
• Roger de Moulins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
• Count Raymond III of Tripoli (b. 1140)