1180
| Centuries: | 11th century - 12th century - 13th century |
| Decades: | 1150s 1160s 1170s - 1180s - 1190s 1200s 1210s |
| Years: | 1177 1178 1179 - 1180 - 1181 1182 1183 |
| 1180 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1180 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1180 MCLXXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1933 |
| Armenian calendar | 629 ԹՎ ՈԻԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -664 – -663 |
| Berber calendar | 2130 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1724 |
| Burmese calendar | 542 |
| Chinese calendar | 3816/3876-12-3 (己亥年十二月初三日) — to —
3817/3877-12-13(庚子年十二月十三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 896 – 897 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1172 – 1173 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4940 – 4941 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1235 – 1236 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1102 – 1103 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4281 – 4282 |
| Holocene calendar | 11180 |
| Iranian calendar | 558 – 559 |
| Islamic calendar | 575 – 576 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3513 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1723 |
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Events
- April 13 — Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter.
- September 24 - Alexius II Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor.
- November 18 — Philip II becomes King of France.
- During the third year of the Jisho era of Japan, a devastating whirlwind damages Kyoto.
- Emperor Antoku succeeds Emperor Takakura as emperor of Japan.
- Afonso I of Portugal is taken prisoner by Ferdinand II of Leon.
- Artois is annexed by France.
- Prince Mochihito amasses a large army and instigates the Genpei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
- Frederick Barbarossa removes Henry the Lion from the Duchy of Saxony, and creates the Duchies of Westphalia and Styria.
- The Wittelsbach Family takes control of Bavaria.
- Kilij Arslan II allies with Saladin after the death of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus.
- Alexander Neckam becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes De Natura Rerum, an early mention of chess (approximate date).
- Estimation: Hangzhou, capital of Southern Song China, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Fes in the Almohad Empire.[1]
- The last major volcanic eruption occurs of Sunset Crater, in Arizona.
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Births
- August 6 — Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
- Berenguela of Castile, queen of Alfonso IX of Castile (d. 1246)
- Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1230)
- King Eric X of Sweden (d. 1216)
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Deaths
- September 18 — King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
- September 24 — Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
- October 25 — John of Salisbury, French bishop (b. c. 1120)
- Odo de St Amand - Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- Al-Mustadi, Caliph (b. 1142)
- William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber
- Abraham ibn Daud, philosopher (martyred) (b. c. 1120)
- Roman I of Kiev
- Yaroslav II of Kiev
- Prince Mochihito, son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
- Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese samurai (b. 1106)
- Zhu Shuzhen, Chinese female poet
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