1180

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1177 1178 1179 – 1180 – 1181 1182 1183

Events

• April 13 – Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter
• 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 Taira and Minamoto clans
• Frederick Barbarossa removes Henry the Lion from the Duchy of Saxony, and created the Duchies of Westphalia and Styria
• Alexius II Comnenus becomes Byzantine emperor
• 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.
• Last major volcanic eruption of Sunset Crater, in Arizona

Births

• August 6 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (died 1239)
• Berenguela of Castile, queen of Alfonso IX of Castile (died 1246)
• Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (died 1230)

Deaths

• September 18 – King Louis VII of France (born 1120)
• September 24 – Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (born 1118)
• October 25 – John of Salisbury, French bishop
• Al-Mustadi, Caliph
• William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber
• Abraham ben David, philosopher (martyred)
• Roman of Kiev
• Yaroslav II of Kiev
• Prince Mochihito, son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
• Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese warlord (born 1106)