1180

This article is about the year 1180.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s
Years:	1177 1178 1179 1180 1181 1182 1183

1180 by topic
Leaders
Political entities State leaders Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1180 in poetry

1180 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1180 MCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	1933
Armenian calendar	629 ԹՎ ՈԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	5930
Balinese saka calendar	1101–1102
Bengali calendar	587
Berber calendar	2130
English Regnal year	26 Hen. 2 – 27 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1724
Burmese calendar	542
Byzantine calendar	6688–6689
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3876 or 3816     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3877 or 3817
Coptic calendar	896–897
Discordian calendar	2346
Ethiopian calendar	1172–1173
Hebrew calendar	4940–4941
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1236–1237
- Shaka Samvat	1101–1102
- Kali Yuga	4280–4281
Holocene calendar	11180
Igbo calendar	180–181
Iranian calendar	558–559
Islamic calendar	575–576
Japanese calendar	Jishō 4 (治承４年)
Javanese calendar	1087–1088
Julian calendar	1180 MCLXXX
Korean calendar	3513
Minguo calendar	732 before ROC 民前732年
Nanakshahi calendar	−288
Seleucid era	1491/1492 AG
Thai solar calendar	1722–1723
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1306 or 925 or 153     — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1307 or 926 or 154

Year 1180 (MCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

America

• The last major volcanic eruption occurs of Sunset Crater, in Arizona.

Asia

Japan

• During the third year of the Jishō era of Japan, a devastating whirlwind damages Kyoto.
• Emperor Antoku succeeds Emperor Takakura, as emperor of Japan.
• Prince Mochihito amasses a large army, and instigates the Genpei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans.

Near East

• Kilij Arslan II allies with Saladin, after the death of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.

Europe

• April 13 – Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter.
• September 24 – Alexios II Komnenos succeeds as Byzantine Emperor, on the death of his father Manuel I Komnenos.
• September 18 – Philip II becomes King of France.
• Afonso I of Portugal is taken prisoner by Ferdinand II of León.
• The Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho wins a second victory in two years, against the Almohad fleet.
• Artois is annexed by France.
• Frederick Barbarossa removes Henry the Lion from the Duchy of Saxony, and creates the Duchies of Westphalia and Styria.
• The Wittelsbach Family takes control of Bavaria.
• The assembly traditionally regarded as the first Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland convenes at Łęczyca.

By topic

Culture

• Alexander Neckam becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes De Natura Rerum, an early mention of chess (approximate date).

Demography

• Estimation: Hangzhou, capital of Southern Song China, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Fez in the Almohad Empire.

Births

• August 6 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
• Berengaria of Castile, queen of Alfonso IX of León (d. 1246)
• Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1230)
• King Eric X of Sweden (d. 1216) (possible date)
• Xia Gui, Chinese painter (d. c. 1230) (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 30 – Al-Mustadi, Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad (b. 1142)
• June – Prince Mochihito, son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
• June 14 – Roman I of Kiev, Russian prince
• June 20 – Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese samurai (ritual suicide) (b. 1106)
• September 18 – King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
• September 24 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
• October 25 – John of Salisbury, English-born French bishop (b. c. 1120)
• November 14 – Lorcán Ua Tuathail (Laurence O'Toole), Irish archbishop, canonized (b. 1128)
• Abraham ibn Daud, Spanish-Jewish philosopher (martyred) (b. c. 1120)
• Yaroslav II of Kiev, Russian prince
• Zhu Shuzhen, Chinese poet (b. c. 1135)