1187

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

Events

• May 1 – Battle of Cresson – Saladin defeats the crusaders
• July 4 – Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, at the Battle of Hattin.
• September 20 – October 2 – Siege of Jerusalem – Saladin captures Jerusalem.
• October 29 – Pope Gregory VIII issues the bull Audita tremendi, proposing the Third Crusade.
• Alexis Branas attempts to seize Constantinople in defiance of his master Isaac II Angelus.
• Cathedral of St. Jacob consecrated in Szczecin, Pomerania
• Destruction of Sigtuna – archbishop is killed
• Knut Eriksson builds a castle in the island of Stockholm
• Compass in Europe
• The Toltecs are deposed at Chichen Itza
• Zen Buddhism comes to Japan
• King of Ankor Vat, Jayavarman VII defeats Cham conquerors
• Ghorin Muhammed conquers Punjab
• Genoa takes Bonifacio (in Corsica) from Pisa

Births

• September 5 — King Louis VIII of France (d. 1226)
• Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1203)
• Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1239)

Deaths

• July 4 — Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch (executed, b. c. 1125)
• October 19 — Pope Urban III
• November 9 — Emperor Gaozong of China (b. 1107)
• December 17 — Pope Gregory VIII (b. c. 1100)
• Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator of scientific works (b. c. 1114)
• Roger de Moulins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
• Count Raymond III of Tripoli (b. 1140)