1189

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1186 1187 1188 – 1189 – 1190 1191 1192

1189 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1189 in poetry

1189 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1189 MCLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1942
Armenian calendar	638 ԹՎ ՈԼԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-655 – -654
Bengali calendar	596
Berber calendar	2139
Buddhist calendar	1733
Burmese calendar	551
Byzantine calendar	6697 – 6698
Chinese calendar	戊申年十二月十三日 (3825/3885-12-13) — to — 己酉年十一月廿二日 (3826/3886-11-22)
Coptic calendar	905 – 906
Ethiopian calendar	1181 – 1182
Hebrew calendar	4949 – 4950
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1245 – 1246
- Shaka Samvat	1111 – 1112
- Kali Yuga	4290 – 4291
Holocene calendar	11189
Iranian calendar	567 – 568
Islamic calendar	584 – 585
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3522
Thai solar calendar	1732

Contents 1 Events 2 Ongoing 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

Events

• January 21—Philip II of France and Henry II of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
• February 18—Emperor Xiaozong abdicates to Emperor Guangzong.
• August 29—Ban Kulin writes The Charter of Kulin, which becomes a symbolic "birth certificate" of Bosnian statehood.
• Henry II of England ends a war against Philip II of France & Richard I of England by agreeing to their terms: he pays Philip 20,000 marks and recognizes Richard as the heir to the English throne. Henry is brokenhearted to find that his second heir, John of England, had also allied against him in the war. He dies within a few months.^[1]
• September 3—Richard Lionheart is crowned as king of England. He immediately begins selling castles, lordships, privileges, and towns to fund his long-anticipated crusade against the Middle East.^[2]
• The Siege of Acre begins.
• The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.
• The town of Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland gains its charter.

Ongoing

• Khmer-Cham War (1170–1203)
• Third Crusade (1187–1191)

Births

• Saint Pedro Nolasco, French religious leader (d. 1256)
• Yelü Chucai, Mandarin statesman (d. 1243)
• Yuri II, grand prince of Vladimir (d. 1238)
• probable – Skule Bårdsson, Norwegian nobleman (d. 1240)

Deaths

• January 1 – Henry of Marcy, Cistercian abbot (b. c. 1136)
• March 25 – Frederick of Bohemia
• May 17—Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (b. 1159)
• July 6—King Henry II of England (b. 1133)
• July 13—Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, daughter of Henry II of England (b. 1156)
• September 3 – Jacob of Orléans, Jewish scholar
• October 1—Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• November 11—King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (b. 1153)
• November 14—William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
• Anvari, Persian poet (b. 1126)
• Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair, King of Connacht
• Fulmar, Archbishop of Trier (b. c. 1135)
• Richard de Morville, Constable of Scotland
• Geoffrey Ridel, Lord Chancellor of England
• Saito Musashibo Benkei, Japanese fighting monk (b. 1155)
• Emperor Shizong of Jin (b. 1123)

References