1188
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1150s 1160s 1170s – 1180s – 1190s 1200s 1210s |
| Years: | 1185 1186 1187 – 1188 – 1189 1190 1191 |
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| 1188 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1188 MCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1941 |
| Armenian calendar | 637 ԹՎ ՈԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5938 |
| Bengali calendar | 595 |
| Berber calendar | 2138 |
| English Regnal year | 34 Hen. 2 – 35 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1732 |
| Burmese calendar | 550 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6696–6697 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3884 or 3824 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3885 or 3825 |
| Coptic calendar | 904–905 |
| Discordian calendar | 2354 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1180–1181 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4948–4949 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1244–1245 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1110–1111 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4289–4290 |
| Holocene calendar | 11188 |
| Igbo calendar | 188–189 |
| Iranian calendar | 566–567 |
| Islamic calendar | 583–584 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunji 4 (文治４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1188 MCLXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3521 |
| Minguo calendar | 724 before ROC 民前724年 |
| Seleucid era | 1499/1500 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1730–1731 |
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Year 1188 (MCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- Saladin unsuccessfully besieges the Hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers in modern Syria.
- Newgate Prison is built in London.
- Richard Lionheart allies with Philip II of France against his father, Henry II of England.
- Giraldus Cambrensis and Baldwin of Exeter travel through Wales attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.
- The "Saladin tithe" is levied in England.
- Alfonso IX of León becomes king of Leon.
- Queen Tamar of Georgia marries David Soslan.
- The legendary Cutting of the elm occurs at Gisors in Normandy.
- Alfonso IX of León convened at the Basilica of San Isidoro the Cortes of León with representatives of the nobility, clergy and towns. These Cortes are considered as the first parliament in Europe.
Births
- March 4 – Blanche of Castille (d. 1252)
Deaths
- January 22 – Ferdinand II of León (b. 1137)
- October 11 – Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France (b. c. 1123)
- November 17 – Usamah ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (b. 1095)
