1181

This article is about the year 1181. For the number, see 1181 (number). For the Air Cadet Squadron, see 1181 Syston Squadron ATC.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1178 1179 1180 – 1181 – 1182 1183 1184

1181 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1181 in poetry

1181 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1181 MCLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1934
Armenian calendar	630 ԹՎ ՈԼ
Assyrian calendar	5931
Bengali calendar	588
Berber calendar	2131
English Regnal year	27 Hen. 2 – 28 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1725
Burmese calendar	543
Byzantine calendar	6689–6690
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3877 or 3817     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3878 or 3818
Coptic calendar	897–898
Discordian calendar	2347
Ethiopian calendar	1173–1174
Hebrew calendar	4941–4942
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1237–1238
- Shaka Samvat	1103–1104
- Kali Yuga	4282–4283
Holocene calendar	11181
Igbo calendar	181–182
Iranian calendar	559–560
Islamic calendar	576–577
Japanese calendar	Jishō 5 / Yōwa 1 (養和元年)
Julian calendar	1181 MCLXXXI
Korean calendar	3514
Minguo calendar	731 before ROC 民前731年
Seleucid era	1492/1493 AG
Thai solar calendar	1723–1724

Year 1181 (MCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Asia

• Jayavarman VII defeats the Cham and assumes control of the Khmer kingdom.
• The Yowa era, marked by famine, begins in Japan.

Europe

• After a series of defeats, the Almohad navy, under the admiral Ahmad al-Siqilli, crushes the Portuguese fleet and reassert their control over the Atlantic Ocean.
• The word Albigensians is first used by chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois to describe the inhabitants of Albi, France.
• Philip Augustus annuls all loans made by Jews to Christians and takes a percentage for himself. A year later, he confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris.

By topic

Science

• Chinese and Japanese astronomers observe what has since come to be understood as supernova SN 1181. One of only eight supernovae in the Milky Way observed in recorded history, it appears in the constellation Cassiopeia and is visible in the night sky for about 185 days. The radio source 3C58 is thought to be the remnant from this event.
• Guilhem VIII, lord of Montpellier, frees the teaching of medicine from any monopoly (January).

Religion

• September 1 – Pope Lucius III succeeds Pope Alexander III as the 171st pope.

Births

• September 26 – Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order (d. 1226)
• October 4 – Teresa of Portugal, Queen of Léon (d. 1250)
• date unknown – Jochi, military leader, eldest son of Genghis Khan (d. 1227)

Deaths

• January 30 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• March 17 – Henry I of Champagne, count of Champagne
• June 30 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
• August 30 – Pope Alexander III (b. c. 1100–1105)
• Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese warlord (b. 1118)
• As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (b. 1163)