1179

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s 1150s 1160s – 1170s – 1180s 1190s 1200s
Years:	1176 1177 1178 – 1179 – 1180 1181 1182

1179 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1179 in poetry

Events

June 19—Battle of Kalvskinnet (outside Nidaros, Norway): Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
The Third Council of the Lateran condemns Waldensians and Cathars as heretics, institutes a reformation of clerical life, and creates the first "ghettos" for Jews. It also rules that the Pope must receive 2/3 of the cardinals' votes to be elected.
Afonso I is recognized as the true King of Portugal by Pope Alexander III, bringing Portugal the protection of the Catholic Church against the Castilian monarchy.
November 1 – Philip II is crowned King of France. He assumes his office, however, in the next year, following the death of his father Louis VII.
The city of Aberdeen is chartered by William the Lion.
Westminster School is founded by the monks of Westminster Abbey (by papal command).
The Drigung Kagyu school of Kagyu Buddhism is founded.
The Maya city of Chichen Itza is sacked and burned by Hunac Ceel, the Mayapan king.

John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (approximate date; d. 1236)
Mikhail of Kiev (approximate date; d. 1246)
Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (approximate date; d. 1239)
Shimazu Tadahisa, warlord of the Shimazu clan of Japan (d. 1227)
William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (d. 1221)
Yaqut al-Hamawi, Arab geographer (d. 1229)

September 17—Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess, mystic writer, and composer (b. 1098)
Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (b. 1138)