1177

This article is about the year 1177.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1174 1175 1176 – 1177 – 1178 1179 1180

1177 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1177 in poetry

1177 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1177 MCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1930
Armenian calendar	626 ԹՎ ՈԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	5927
Bengali calendar	584
Berber calendar	2127
English Regnal year	23 Hen. 2 – 24 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1721
Burmese calendar	539
Byzantine calendar	6685–6686
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3873 or 3813     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3874 or 3814
Coptic calendar	893–894
Discordian calendar	2343
Ethiopian calendar	1169–1170
Hebrew calendar	4937–4938
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1233–1234
- Shaka Samvat	1099–1100
- Kali Yuga	4278–4279
Holocene calendar	11177
Igbo calendar	177–178
Iranian calendar	555–556
Islamic calendar	572–573
Japanese calendar	Angen 3 / Jishō 1 (治承元年)
Julian calendar	1177 MCLXXVII
Korean calendar	3510
Minguo calendar	735 before ROC 民前735年
Seleucid era	1488/1489 AG
Thai solar calendar	1719–1720

Year 1177 (MCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January – Eystein Meyla, leader of the Birkebeiner in Norway, is killed. Sverre Sigurdson (Later, King Sverre I, of Norway) becomes the new leader.
• January 13 - Leopold V becomes Duke of Austria.
• March – Treaty of Venice: Frederick I Barbarossa acknowledges Alexander III as Pope.
• August 1 – Holy Roman Empire renounces any claims on the territory of Rome.
• September 27 – Pope Alexander III sends a letter to Prester John, believing he is real.
• November 25 – Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin.
• During the third year of the Angen era in Japan, a fire devastates Kyoto.
• Benedictus Abbas becomes abbot of Peterborough.
• Byland Abbey is founded in Yorkshire by the Cistercians.
• Casimir II becomes king of Poland.
• The Cham sack the Khmer capital of Angkor Wat.
• Roger de Moulins becomes Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
• Moscow is burned down and its inhabitants are killed.
• Puigcerdà is founded by Alfonso II of Aragon.
• The Estonians attack Pskov during the winter.
• A civil war breaks out in Florence between the Uberti family and their consular opponent.

Births

• February/March – Philip of Swabia, rival of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1208)
• August – Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (d. 1186)
• December 22 – Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)

Deaths

• January 13 – Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
• January – Eystein Meyla, leader of the Birkebeiner in Norway. (b. 1157)
• June – William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, father of Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. early 1140s)
• probable – Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1095)