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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 |
| 1188 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1188 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1188 MCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1941 |
| Armenian calendar | 637 ԹՎ ՈԼԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -656 – -655 |
| Berber calendar | 2138 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1732 |
| Burmese calendar | 550 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6696 – 6697 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年十二月初一日 (3824/3884-12-1) — to —
戊申年十二月十二日(3825/3885-12-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 904 – 905 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1180 – 1181 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4948 – 4949 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1243 – 1244 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1110 – 1111 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4289 – 4290 |
| Holocene calendar | 11188 |
| Iranian calendar | 566 – 567 |
| Islamic calendar | 583 – 584 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3521 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1731 |
[edit] 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 Leon becomes king of Leon.
- Queen Tamar of Georgia marries David Soslan.
- The legendary Cutting of the elm occurs at Gisors in Normandy.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- August 22—Ferdinand II of Leon (b. 1137)
- October 11—Robert I of Dreux, son of Louis VI of France (b. c. 1123)
- Usamah ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (b. 1095)
- Sultan Ali bin Hasan of Kilwa
