1179

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1176 1177 1178 – 1179 – 1180 1181 1182

1179 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1179 in poetry

1179 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1179 MCLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1932
Armenian calendar	628 ԹՎ ՈԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	5929
Bengali calendar	586
Berber calendar	2129
English Regnal year	25 Hen. 2 – 26 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1723
Burmese calendar	541
Byzantine calendar	6687–6688
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3875 or 3815     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3876 or 3816
Coptic calendar	895–896
Discordian calendar	2345
Ethiopian calendar	1171–1172
Hebrew calendar	4939–4940
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1235–1236
- Shaka Samvat	1101–1102
- Kali Yuga	4280–4281
Holocene calendar	11179
Igbo calendar	179–180
Iranian calendar	557–558
Islamic calendar	574–575
Japanese calendar	Jishō 3 (治承３年)
Julian calendar	1179 MCLXXIX
Korean calendar	3512
Minguo calendar	733 before ROC 民前733年
Seleucid era	1490/1491 AG
Thai solar calendar	1721–1722

Year 1179 (MCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Middle East

• 23–30 August – Battle of Jacob's Ford , Syria

Saladin destroys the still in construction Castle of Chastellet at Jacob's Ford, killing 700 knights and taking 800 civilians captive.

America

• The Maya city of Chichen Itza is sacked and burned by Hunac Ceel, the Mayapan king.

Europe

• June 19 – Battle of Kalvskinnet (outside Nidaros, Norway): Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
• Afonso I is recognized as King of Portugal by Pope Alexander III, bringing Portugal the protection of the Catholic Church against the Leonese monarchy.
• November 1 – Philip II is crowned King of France. He assumes his office, however, in the next year, following the death of his father Louis VII.
• The city of Aberdeen is chartered by William the Lion.
• Large offensive by the Almohad army in southern Portugal aiming at the reconquest of the Alentejo.^[1] Further north, a fleet led by Abd Allah b. Ishaq b. Jami is sailing to attack Lisbon but is repelled by the Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho near the Cape Espichel.^[1] The Portuguese admiral later manages to enter in the harbor of Ceuta and destroy a number of Muslim ships. It is the beginning of a four-year naval conflict between Almohads and Portuguese.

By topic

Religion

• The Third Council of the Lateran condemns Waldensians and Cathars as heretics, institutes a reformation of clerical life, and creates the first "ghettos" for Jews. It also rules that the Pope must receive 2/3 of the cardinals' votes to be elected.
• Westminster School is founded by the monks of Westminster Abbey (by papal command).
• The Drigung Kagyu school of Kagyu Buddhism is founded.

Births

• John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut (approximate date; d. 1236)
• Michael of Chernigov (approximate date; d. 1246)
• Shimazu Tadahisa, warlord of the Shimazu clan of Japan (d. 1227)
• William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (d. 1221)
• Yaqut al-Hamawi, Arab geographer (d. 1229)

Deaths

• September 17 – Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess, mystic writer, and composer (b. 1098)
• Taira no Shigemori, Japanese rebel (b. 1138)

References

1. Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, p.77