1181

Year 1181 (MCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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

1181 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1181 MCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1934
Armenian calendar	630 ԹՎ ՈԼ
Assyrian calendar	5931
Balinese saka calendar	1102–1103
Bengali calendar	588
Berber calendar	2131
English Regnal year	27 Hen. 2 – 28 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1725
Burmese calendar	543
Byzantine calendar	6689–6690
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3877 or 3817     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3878 or 3818
Coptic calendar	897–898
Discordian calendar	2347
Ethiopian calendar	1173–1174
Hebrew calendar	4941–4942
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1237–1238
- Shaka Samvat	1102–1103
- Kali Yuga	4281–4282
Holocene calendar	11181
Igbo calendar	181–182
Iranian calendar	559–560
Islamic calendar	576–577
Japanese calendar	Jishō 5 / Yōwa 1 (養和元年)
Javanese calendar	1088–1089
Julian calendar	1181 MCLXXXI
Korean calendar	3514
Minguo calendar	731 before ROC 民前731年
Nanakshahi calendar	−287
Seleucid era	1492/1493 AG
Thai solar calendar	1723–1724
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1307 or 926 or 154     — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1308 or 927 or 155

Events

Asia

Japan

• The Yowa era, marked by famine, begins in Japan.

Southeast Asia

• Jayavarman VII defeats the Cham and assumes control of the Khmer Kingdom.

Europe

• After a series of defeats, the Almohad navy, under the admiral Ahmad al-Siqilli, crushes the Portuguese fleet and reasserts its control over the Atlantic Ocean.[1]
• The word Albigensians is first used by chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois, to describe the inhabitants of Albi, France.
• Philip Augustus annuls all loans made by Jews to Christians, and takes a percentage for himself. A year later, he confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris.[2]

By topic

Science

• Chinese and Japanese astronomers observe what has since come to be understood as supernova SN 1181. 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.
• Guilhem VIII, lord of Montpellier in France, frees the teaching of medicine from any monopoly. (January[3]).

Religion

• September 1 – Pope Lucius III succeeds Pope Alexander III, as the 171st pope.

Births

• Mathilde of Angoulême, French noble (d. 1233)

Deaths

Emperor Takakura

Pope Alexander III

• January 30 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• March 16 – Henry I, Count of Champagne
• March 21 – Taira no Kiyomori, Samurai leader of Japan (b. 1118)
• June 30 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
• August 30 – Pope Alexander III (b. c. 1100–1105)
• Adela of Meissen, queen consort of Denmark
• Lucas, Archbishop of Esztergom (b. c. 1120)[4]
• Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese warlord (b. 1118)
• As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (b. 1163)

References

1. Picard, Christophe (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
2. Baldwin, John (2006). Paris 1200. Paris: Aubier. p. 75.
3. Mélanges d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque, by Gad Freudenthal, Samuel S. Kottek, Paul Fenton compiled by Gad Freudenthal, Samuel S. Kottek published by Brill, 2002 ISBN 90-04-12522-1, 9789004125223
4. Makk, Ferenc (1994). "Lukács". In Kristó, Gyula; Engel, Pál; Makk, Ferenc (eds.). Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9–14. század) [Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History (9th–14th centuries)] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 417–420. ISBN 963-05-6722-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)