1186

This article is about the year 1186.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1183 1184 1185 – 1186 – 1187 1188 1189

1186 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1186 in poetry

1186 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1186 MCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1939
Armenian calendar	635 ԹՎ ՈԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	5936
Bengali calendar	593
Berber calendar	2136
English Regnal year	32 Hen. 2 – 33 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1730
Burmese calendar	548
Byzantine calendar	6694–6695
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3882 or 3822     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3883 or 3823
Coptic calendar	902–903
Discordian calendar	2352
Ethiopian calendar	1178–1179
Hebrew calendar	4946–4947
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1242–1243
- Shaka Samvat	1108–1109
- Kali Yuga	4287–4288
Holocene calendar	11186
Igbo calendar	186–187
Iranian calendar	564–565
Islamic calendar	581–582
Japanese calendar	Bunji 2 (文治２年)
Julian calendar	1186 MCLXXXVI
Korean calendar	3519
Minguo calendar	726 before ROC 民前726年
Seleucid era	1497/1498 AG
Thai solar calendar	1728–1729

Year 1186 (MCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 27 – Constance of Sicily marries Henry (the future Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor).
• John the Chanter becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• The Byzantine Empire recognizes the independence of Bulgaria and Serbia.
• Joscius becomes Archbishop of Tyre.
• Jayavarman VII, the king of Cambodia, founds the temple of Ta Prohm.
• After the death of the child-king Baldwin V, his mother succeeds him as Sibylla of Jerusalem and appoints her disfavoured husband Guy de Lusignan king consort. This comes as a shock to Jerusalem's court, who had earlier forced the possible future Queen into promising that should she become so, she would not appoint him the title.

Births

• May 18 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
• May 28 (probable) – Queen Urraca of Portugal, wife of King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1220)
• Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich, Grand Prince of Kiev
• Ögedei Khan, third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1241)
• Song Ci, Chinese physician and judge (d. 1249)

Deaths

• January 26 – Ismat ad-Din Khatun, wife of Saladin
• May 29 or June 23 or June 24 – Robert of Torigni
• June 1 – Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord
• August 19 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
• August – Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. 1177)
• September 29 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130)