1185

This article is about the year 1185.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1182 1183 1184 – 1185 – 1186 1187 1188

1185 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1185 in poetry

1185 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1185 MCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1938
Armenian calendar	634 ԹՎ ՈԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	5935
Bengali calendar	592
Berber calendar	2135
English Regnal year	31 Hen. 2 – 32 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1729
Burmese calendar	547
Byzantine calendar	6693–6694
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 3881 or 3821     — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3882 or 3822
Coptic calendar	901–902
Discordian calendar	2351
Ethiopian calendar	1177–1178
Hebrew calendar	4945–4946
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1241–1242
- Shaka Samvat	1107–1108
- Kali Yuga	4286–4287
Holocene calendar	11185
Igbo calendar	185–186
Iranian calendar	563–564
Islamic calendar	580–581
Japanese calendar	Genryaku 2 / Bunji 1 (文治元年)
Julian calendar	1185 MCLXXXV
Korean calendar	3518
Minguo calendar	727 before ROC 民前727年
Seleucid era	1496/1497 AG
Thai solar calendar	1727–1728

Year 1185 (MCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• The Almohads reconquer Béjaïa and Algiers that had been taken by the Banu Ghaniya, descendants of the Almoravids.

Asia

• April 25 – Genpei War: The naval Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to a Minamoto victory in Japan, and the death of Emperor Antoku.
• Mohammad of Ghur takes Punjab and Lahore, overthrowing the Ghaznavids.
• The Heian period ends and the Kamakura period begins in Japan.

Europe

British isles

• Henry II of England knights his heir John of England and sends him to Ireland to enforce English control. According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol and the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy. By the end of the year, John has returned to England in defeat. Nonetheless, Henry gets him named King of Ireland by Pope Urban III and procures a golden crown with peacock feathers.
• Templars settle in London and begin building the New Temple Church.

Eastern Europe

• August 15 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
• August 24 – the Byzantine city of Thessalonica is sacked by the Norman Sicilian troops.
• September 11/12 – Isaac II Angelos leads a revolt in the Byzantine Empire which deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and ends the Komnenos dynasty.
• November 7 – Byzantine general Alexios Branas decisively defeats the Normans at the Battle of Demetritzes, ending the Norman invasion of the Byzantine Empire.
• Peter and John Asen lead a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Empire.

After Igor's battle with the Cumans

• Igor Svyatoslavich's failed campaign against the Cumans, later immortalized in The Tale of Igor's Campaign

=Astronomy

• May 1 – Solar eclipse of 1 May 1185, visible across Central America, Northern and Eastern Europe and Kazakhstan.

Markets

• First evidence that the king of England is using the safes of the New Temple in London under the guard of the Knights Templar to store part of his treasure.

Religion

• November 25 – Pope Urban III succeeds Pope Lucius III as the 172nd pope.

Births

• April 23 – King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
• Inge II of Norway (d. 1217)
• Gertrude of Merania (d. 1213)

Deaths

• March 16 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)
• March 24 – Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (b. 1152)
• April 25 – Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
• June 16 – Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile (b. c. 1140)
• June 19 – Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)
• July 18 – Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala (b. before 1143)
• September 11 – Stephen Hagiochristophorites, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire (b. c. 1130)
• September 12 – Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1118)
• November 25 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
• December 6 – King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
• Gillchreest MacCathmhaoil, Irish Head Chieftain of Cineal Fereadaidh, clan Aongus, clan Dubhinreacht, clan Fogarty O'Ceannfhoda, and clan Colla.
• Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (b. 1160)
• Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (b. 1158)
• Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier (b. c. 1105)