1175

Year 1175 (MCLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s
Years:	1172 1173 1174 1175 1176 1177 1178

1175 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1175 MCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	1928
Armenian calendar	624 ԹՎ ՈԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	5925
Balinese saka calendar	1096–1097
Bengali calendar	582
Berber calendar	2125
English Regnal year	21 Hen. 2 – 22 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1719
Burmese calendar	537
Byzantine calendar	6683–6684
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3871 or 3811     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3872 or 3812
Coptic calendar	891–892
Discordian calendar	2341
Ethiopian calendar	1167–1168
Hebrew calendar	4935–4936
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1231–1232
- Shaka Samvat	1096–1097
- Kali Yuga	4275–4276
Holocene calendar	11175
Igbo calendar	175–176
Iranian calendar	553–554
Islamic calendar	570–571
Japanese calendar	Jōan 5 / Angen 1 (安元元年)
Javanese calendar	1082–1083
Julian calendar	1175 MCLXXV
Korean calendar	3508
Minguo calendar	737 before ROC 民前737年
Nanakshahi calendar	−293
Seleucid era	1486/1487 AG
Thai solar calendar	1717–1718
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1301 or 920 or 148     — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1302 or 921 or 149

Events

By place

Asia

• A Song Dynasty Chinese written record of this year, states that a paper-printed-money factory in the city of Hangzhou alone employs a daily work force of more than 1,000.
• Ly Cao Ton becomes ruler of Vietnam.
• The Kingdom of Namayan reaches its peak on Luzon.

Europe

British isles

• Henry II of England begins living openly with his friend Rosamund Clifford, raising suspicions about their relationship and alienating Henry's wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine.[1]
• Treaty of Windsor: Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (Rory O'Conner), the last High King of Ireland, submits to Henry II as vassal of Ireland.
• The Massacre of Abergavenny ends with several Welsh noblemen dead, at the orders of William de Braose.

Denmark

• Vordingborg Castle is completed.

Byzantium

• Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus restores the trading privileges of Venice.

Iberia

• Under the admirals of the clan Banu Mardanish, an Almohad fleet suffers a large defeat at the hand of the Portuguese, as they are trying to reconquer Lisbon.[2]

Italy

• The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia was founded.

By topic

Religion

• The high academy of Bosnian religious organization in Moštre, Visoko, is first mentioned in Vatican archives.
• William of Tyre becomes archbishop of Tyre.

Births

• date unknown
  • Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1218)
  • Fibonacci (d. 1250)
  • Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (d. 1236)
  • Roger III of Sicily (d. 1194)
  • Michael Scot, Scottish mathematician and astrologer (d. 1232)
• probable
  • Frederick I of Austria (d. 1198)
  • Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, theologian and bishop (d. 1253)

Deaths

• May 15 – King Mleh, Prince of Armenia (murdered)
• November 13 – Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims (b. c.1121)
• Maria Torribia, Spanish hermit

References

1. King John by Warren. Published by University of California Press in 1961. p. 26
2. Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, p.77