1176

This article is about the year 1176.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1173 1174 1175 – 1176 – 1177 1178 1179

1176 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1176 in poetry

1176 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1176 MCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1929
Armenian calendar	625 ԹՎ ՈԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	5926
Bengali calendar	583
Berber calendar	2126
English Regnal year	22 Hen. 2 – 23 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1720
Burmese calendar	538
Byzantine calendar	6684–6685
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3872 or 3812     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3873 or 3813
Coptic calendar	892–893
Discordian calendar	2342
Ethiopian calendar	1168–1169
Hebrew calendar	4936–4937
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1232–1233
- Shaka Samvat	1098–1099
- Kali Yuga	4277–4278
Holocene calendar	11176
Igbo calendar	176–177
Iranian calendar	554–555
Islamic calendar	571–572
Japanese calendar	Angen 2 (安元２年)
Julian calendar	1176 MCLXXVI
Korean calendar	3509
Minguo calendar	736 before ROC 民前736年
Seleucid era	1487/1488 AG
Thai solar calendar	1718–1719

Year 1176 (MCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January – The Assize of Northampton is enacted in England.
• May 22 – The Hashshashin attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
• May 29 – Battle of Legnano: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated by the Lombard League, leading to the pactum Anagninum (the Agreement of Anagni).
• September 17 – Battle of Myriokephalon: The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
• Al-Adil I, the Muslim ruler of Egypt, suppresses a revolt by the Christian Copts in the city of Qift, hanging nearly 3,000 of them on the trees around the city.
• Raynald of Châtillon is ransomed from prison in Aleppo.
• Construction begins on a stone-built London Bridge.
• Aberdeen in Scotland becomes a royal burgh.
• The first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod is held by Rhys ap Gruffydd at Cardigan.
• Unkei completes his Dainichi Nyorai (Enjō-ji) statue, now a National Treasure of Japan.
• Sens Cathedral installs an horologe, presumed to be an early form of clock.
• The Carthusians are approved as a religious order.

Births

• Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1220)
• Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (d. 1230)
• William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (approximate date; d. 1226)

Deaths

• April 18 – Saint Galdino della Sala, Italian archdeacon
• April 20 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
• May 13 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
• August 23 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164)
• October 12 – William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. c. 1109)
• probable
  • Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (b. 1150)
  • Michael Aspietes, Byzantine general