1185

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1182 1183 1184 – 1185 – 1186 1187 1188

1185 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1185 in poetry

1185 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1185 MCLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1938
Armenian calendar	634 ԹՎ ՈԼԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-659 – -658
Bengali calendar	592
Berber calendar	2135
Buddhist calendar	1729
Burmese calendar	547
Byzantine calendar	6693 – 6694
Chinese calendar	甲辰年十一月廿八日 (3821/3881-11-28) — to — 乙巳年十二月初八日 (3822/3882-12-8)
Coptic calendar	901 – 902
Ethiopian calendar	1177 – 1178
Hebrew calendar	4945 – 4946
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1241 – 1242
- Shaka Samvat	1107 – 1108
- Kali Yuga	4286 – 4287
Holocene calendar	11185
Iranian calendar	563 – 564
Islamic calendar	580 – 581
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3518
Thai solar calendar	1728

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events

• April 25—Genpei War: The naval Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to a Minamoto victory in Japan, and the death of Emperor Antoku.
• August 15—The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
• September 11—Isaac II Angelus leads a revolt in the Byzantine Empire which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and ends the Komnenos dynasty.
• November 25—Pope Urban III succeeds Pope Lucius III as the 172nd pope.
• Henry II of England knights his heir John of England and sends him to Ireland to enforce English control. According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol & the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy. By the end of the year, John has returned to England in defeat. Nonetheless, Henry gets him named King of Ireland by Pope Urban III and procures a golden crown with peacock feathers.^[1]
• Templars settle in London and begin building the New Temple Church.
• The Heian Period ends and the Kamakura period begins in Japan.
• The Katedralskolan, the oldest school in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe, is founded in Lund, Sweden.
• Peter and Asen led a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.
• Mohammad of Ghur takes Punjab and Lahore, overthrowing the Ghaznavids.
• Igor Svyatoslavich's failed campaign against the Cumans, later immortalized in The Tale of Igor's Campaign

Births

• April 23—King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
• Inge II of Norway (d. 1217)
• Gertrude of Merania (d. 1213)

Deaths

• April 25—Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
• June 16—Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile, (b. c. 1140)
• July 18—Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala
• July 25—King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
• September 12—Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. c. 1118)
• November 25—Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
• December 6—King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
• Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)
• Gillchreest MacCathmhaoil, Irish Head Chieftain of Cineal Fereadaidh, clan Aongus, clan Dubhinreacht, clan Fogarty O'Ceannfhoda, and clan Colla.
• Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)
• Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (b. 1160)
• Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (b. 1158)
• Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (b. 1152)
• Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier (b. c. 1105)

References