1184

Year 1184 (MCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1184 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1184
MCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita1937
Armenian calendar633
ԹՎ ՈԼԳ
Assyrian calendar5934
Balinese saka calendar1105–1106
Bengali calendar591
Berber calendar2134
English Regnal year30 Hen. 2  31 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1728
Burmese calendar546
Byzantine calendar6692–6693
Chinese calendar癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
3880 or 3820
     to 
甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
3881 or 3821
Coptic calendar900–901
Discordian calendar2350
Ethiopian calendar1176–1177
Hebrew calendar4944–4945
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1240–1241
 - Shaka Samvat1105–1106
 - Kali Yuga4284–4285
Holocene calendar11184
Igbo calendar184–185
Iranian calendar562–563
Islamic calendar579–580
Japanese calendarJuei 3 / Genryaku 1
(元暦元年)
Javanese calendar1091–1092
Julian calendar1184
MCLXXXIV
Korean calendar3517
Minguo calendar728 before ROC
民前728年
Nanakshahi calendar−284
Seleucid era1495/1496 AG
Thai solar calendar1726–1727
Tibetan calendar阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
1310 or 929 or 157
     to 
阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1311 or 930 or 158
Frederick I during the Diet of Pentecost

Events

Europe

  • May 20 Diet of Pentecost: Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) organises a conference in Mainz. During the diet Frederick negotiates with Henry the Lion about an anti-French alliance with England.
  • June 15 Battle of Fimreite: King Sverre of Norway defeats and kills his rival, Magnus V (Erlingsson) near Fimreite. Sverre takes the throne and becomes sole ruler of Norway (until 1202).
  • Summer Almohad forces reconquer the Alentejo (except for Évora), and besiege Lisbon on land and blockade the port with their navy. A Portuguese soldier manages to swim to the largest ship of the fleet and to sink it. This ship was so tall, it would have allowed the Muslims to easily reach the walls of the city. The next day, the Almohads have to retreat, taking with them a number of civilian captives.[1]
  • Siege of Santarém: Almohad forces under Caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf march towards Badajoz and besiege Santarém, which is defended by King Afonso I (the Conqueror). Upon hearing of Abu Yusuf's attack, Ferdinand II of León marches his army to Santarém to support his father-in-law, Afonso. Abu Yusuf, in an attempt to break the siege, is wounded by a crossbow bolt and dies on July 29.
  • October 29 The 18-year-old Prince Henry, eldest surviving son of Frederick I, is engaged to Princess Constance, heiress to the Kingdom of Sicily, at Augsburg in the episcopal palace.[2]
  • The city of Abbeville receives its commercial charter by King Philip II (Augustus).

England

  • The first royal ordinance, demanding that the Knights Templar and Hospitaller assist in the collection of taxes, is promulgated.[3]
  • King Henry II encourages his youngest (and favorite) son John to seize Aquitaine from his brother Richard.[4]
  • May A serious fire damages Glastonbury Abbey and destroys several buildings.

Africa

  • May Berber forces under Ali Banu Ghaniya seize the Almohad cities of Algiers, Béjaïa and Constantine by surprise. While he is away from his base in Mallorca, one of his brothers, Muhammad, takes control of the island and calls in the Almohads, who intend to capture Mallorca for themselves. Banu Ghaniya arrives just in time, to defeat the Almohads and recapture the island.[1]
  • August 10 Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur is proclaimed the new caliph of the Almohad Caliphate, after his father Abu Yaqub Yusuf is killed in Portugal.

Levant

  • Saladin sends his nephew Izz al-Din Usama, governor (emir) of the iron-rich mountains near Beirut, to build Ajloun Castle, which controls the trade along the road between Damascus and Egypt.[5]

Asia

  • February 19 Second Battle of Uji: Japanese forces under Minamoto no Yoshinaka are defeated by his cousins, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Minamoto no Yoritomo, for the control of Japan.[6]
  • February 21 Battle of Awazu: Minamoto no Yoshinaka is killed during a pursuit by his cousin's armies. He is joined by his foster brother Imai Kanehira, who commits suicide.
  • March 20 Battle of Ichi-no-Tani: Japanese forces under Minamoto no Noriyori defeat the Taira clan at Ikuta Shrine in the woods of Settsu Province during the Genpei War.[7]

Food

  • Earliest mention of Gouda cheese, originating from the Netherlands.

Religion

Births

  • April 11 William Longsword, lord of Lüneburg (d. 1213)
  • Ahmad al-Tifashi, Almohad poet and anthologist (d. 1253)
  • Eleanor (Beauty of Brittany), English countess (d. 1241)
  • Fujiwara no Hideyoshi, Japanese nobleman (d. 1240)
  • Guigues VI, count of Albon (House of Burgundy) (d. 1237)
  • Jutta of Thuringia, margravine of Meissen (d. 1235)
  • William of Modena, Italian bishop and diplomat (d. 1251)

Deaths

  • January 2 Theodora Komnene, duchess of Austria
  • January 13 Gerard la Pucelle, English bishop (b. 1117)
  • February 16 Richard of Dover, English archbishop
  • February 21
    • Imai Kanehira, Japanese military leader (b. 1152)
    • Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese shogun (b. 1154)
  • March 27 George III, king of Georgia (House of Bagrationi)
  • March 28 Eckebert (or Egbert), German Benedictine abbot
  • June 15 Magnus V (Erlingsson), king of Norway (b. 1156)
  • July 29 Abu Yaqub Yusuf, Almohad caliph (emir) (b. 1135)
  • September 30 Arnold of Torroja, Catalan Grand Master
  • October 24 Siegfried, prince-archbishop of Bremen (b. 1132)
  • November 15
    • Beatrice I, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1143)
    • William de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Warwick
  • November 18 Josceline de Bohon, English bishop (b. 1111)
  • December 17 Simon de Tosny, Norman-Scottish bishop
  • Abu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar, Jewish physician (b. 1101)
  • Agnes of Antioch, queen of Hungary (approximate date)
  • Aindréas of Caithness, Gaelic-Scottish monk and bishop
  • Grimaldo Canella, Italian nobleman (House of Grimaldi)
  • Li Tao (or Renfu), Chinese historian and writer (b. 1115)
  • Pedro Fernández de Castro, Spanish nobleman (b. 1115)
  • Sasaki Hideyoshi, Japanese nobleman and samurai (b. 1112)
  • Taira no Atsumori, Japanese warrior and samurai (b. 1169)
  • Taira no Koremori, Japanese nobleman (approximate date)
  • Taira no Tadanori, Japanese warrior and general (b. 1144)
  • William de Vesci, High Sheriff of Northumberland (b. 1125)

References

  1. Picard, Christophe (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
  2. Fröhlich, Walter (1993). The Marriage of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily: Prelude and Consequences, pp. 100–101.
  3. Ferris, Eleanor (1902). "The Financial Relations of the Knights Templars to the English Crown". American Historical Review. 8 (1). doi:10.2307/1832571. JSTOR 1832571.
  4. Williams, Hywell (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 128. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. Chandler G. David (1993). Osprey – Campaign 19: Hattin 1187, p. 11. ISBN 1-85532-284-6.
  6. Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334, pp. 296–297. ISBN 0804705232.
  7. Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334, pp. 298–299. ISBN 0804705232.
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