1188

Year 1188 (MCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1188 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1188
MCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita1941
Armenian calendar637
ԹՎ ՈԼԷ
Assyrian calendar5938
Balinese saka calendar1109–1110
Bengali calendar595
Berber calendar2138
English Regnal year34 Hen. 2  35 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1732
Burmese calendar550
Byzantine calendar6696–6697
Chinese calendar丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3884 or 3824
     to 
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3885 or 3825
Coptic calendar904–905
Discordian calendar2354
Ethiopian calendar1180–1181
Hebrew calendar4948–4949
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1244–1245
 - Shaka Samvat1109–1110
 - Kali Yuga4288–4289
Holocene calendar11188
Igbo calendar188–189
Iranian calendar566–567
Islamic calendar583–584
Japanese calendarBunji 4
(文治4年)
Javanese calendar1095–1096
Julian calendar1188
MCLXXXVIII
Korean calendar3521
Minguo calendar724 before ROC
民前724年
Nanakshahi calendar−280
Seleucid era1499/1500 AG
Thai solar calendar1730–1731
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1314 or 933 or 161
     to 
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1315 or 934 or 162

Events

Europe

  • January 22 King Ferdinand II dies after returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Alfonso IX, who becomes ruler of León and Galicia. He convenes representatives of the nobility, clergy and towns at the Basilica of San Isidoro the Cortes of León. These Corteses are considered to be the first parliament in Europe.
  • Spring King Henry II and Philip II (Augustus) meet at Le Mans, with Archbishop Josias (or Joscius) in attendance. Both kings agree to peace terms, and to contribute to a joint Crusade. It is decided to raise a new tax to pay for the expedition. This tax, known as the Saladin Tithe, is imposed on the people of England and France to raise funds for the Third Crusade.
  • March 27 Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) holds a Diet at Mainz and takes the Cross, followed by his 21-year-old son, Frederick IV, and other German nobles. He sends a delegation to present an ultimatum to Saladin in Syria on May 26. With demands to withdraw his Muslim forces from Palestina and to return the True Cross to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
  • November Richard of Poitou, son of Henry II, allies himself with Philip II and pays him homage. He promises to concede his rights to both Normandy and Anjou. Henry is overpowered by Richard's supporters, who chase him from Le Mans to Angers. They force him to accept peace by conceding to all demands, including the recognition of Richard as his successor.[1]
  • The Cutting of the Elm: A meeting of Henry II and Philip II in the field at Gisors, in Normandy. It marks the Franco-Norman peace negotiations, following the Fall of Jerusalem (see 1187).

Levant

  • Spring Siege of Tyre: Muslim forces under Saladin withdraw from Tyre after a 1½-month siege. For the Crusaders, the city-port becomes a strategic rallying point for the Christian revival during the Third Crusade.
  • May 14 Saladin begins a campaign and marches north but finds Tripoli too strong to be besieged. He decides to take other Crusader fortifications and signs an 8-month truce with Prince Bohemond III of Antioch.
  • May Saladin besieges the Hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers, in Syria. Seeing that the castle is too well defended, instead he decides to march on the Castle of Margat, which he also failed to capture.[2]
  • July Saladin marches through the Buqaia, and occupies Jabala and Lattakieh. From Lattakieh he turns inland and, after a few days of fierce fighting, takes Sahyun Castle (called Castle of Saladin) on July 29.[3]
  • September 4 King Guy of Lusignan is released by Saladin after Ascalon is forced to surrender. Guy and his wife, Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem, seek refuge in Tyre, which is defended by Conrad of Montferrat.

England

  • Spring Henry II institutes legal reforms that give the Crown more control over the administration of justice. He orders Newgate Prison be built in London.[4]
  • Archdeacon Giraldus Cambrensis and Archbishop Baldwin of Forde travel through Wales, attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.

Births

  • March 4 Blanche of Castile, queen and regent of France (d. 1252)
  • March 24 Ferdinand (or Ferrand), count of Flanders (d. 1233)
  • November 26 Yuri II of Vladimir, Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1238)
  • Albert IV (the Wise), German nobleman and knight (d. 1239)
  • Matilda I, countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre (d. 1257)
  • Si Inthrathit, Thai founder of the Sukhothai Kingdom (d. 1270)

Deaths

References

  1. Warren, W. L. (2000). Henry II (Yale ed.), pp. 621–622. New Haven, U.S.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08474-0.
  2. Kennedy, Hugh (1994). Crusader Castles, p. 147. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-42068-7.
  3. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 383. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  4. Halliday, Stephen (2007). Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-3896-9.
  5. Dybdahl, Audun. "Øystein Erlendsson". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
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