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

Events

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.
January—The Assize of Northampton is enacted.
May 22—The Hashshashin attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
Raynald of Chatillon is released from prison in Aleppo.
May 29—Battle of Legnano: Frederick Barbarossa is defeated by the Lombard League, leading to the pactum Anagninum (the Agreement of Anagni).
September 17—Battle of Myriokephalon: The Seljuk Turks defeat Manuel I Comnenus.
The Cathedral of Sens installs the first "horologe".
Construction begins on the London Bridge.
Aberdeen becomes a royal burgh.
The Carthusian Order is approved.
The first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod is held by Rhys ap Gruffydd at Cardigan.

Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1220)
Leopold VI of Austria (d. 1230)
William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (approximate date; d. 1226)
Saint Sava, Serbian prince and archbishop (d. 1235)
Subutai, Mongol general, involved in campaigns from the unification of Mongolia to the Battle of Mohi

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 Rokujo- of Japan (b. 1164)
October 25—William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. c. 1109)
Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (b. 1150)
Saint Galdino, Italian archdeacon