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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1185 1186 1187 – 1188 – 1189 1190 1191

1188 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

1188 in poetry v • d • e

1188 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1188 MCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1941
Armenian calendar	637 ԹՎ ՈԼԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-656 – -655
Bengali calendar	595
Berber calendar	2138
Buddhist calendar	1732
Burmese calendar	550
Byzantine calendar	6696 – 6697
Chinese calendar	丁未年十二月初一日 (3824/3884-12-1) — to — 戊申年十二月十二日 (3825/3885-12-12)
Coptic calendar	904 – 905
Ethiopian calendar	1180 – 1181
Hebrew calendar	4948 – 4949
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1243 – 1244
- Shaka Samvat	1110 – 1111
- Kali Yuga	4289 – 4290
Holocene calendar	11188
Iranian calendar	566 – 567
Islamic calendar	583 – 584
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3521
Thai solar calendar	1731
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Saladin unsuccessfully besieges the Hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers in modern Syria.
• Newgate Prison is built in London.
• Richard Lionheart allies with Philip II of France against his father, Henry II of England.
• Giraldus Cambrensis and Baldwin of Exeter travel through Wales attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.
• The "Saladin tithe" is levied in England.
• Alfonso IX of Leon becomes king of Leon.
• Queen Tamar of Georgia marries David Soslan.
• The legendary Cutting of the elm occurs at Gisors in Normandy.

[edit] Births

• March 4—Blanche of Castile (d. 1252)

[edit] Deaths

• August 22—Ferdinand II of Leon (b. 1137)
• October 11—Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France (b. c. 1123)
• Usamah ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (b. 1095)
• Sultan Ali bin Hasan of Kilwa