1180

This article is about the year 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

1180 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1180 in poetry

1180 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1180 MCLXXX
Ab urbe condita	1933
Armenian calendar	629 ԹՎ ՈԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	5930
Bengali calendar	587
Berber calendar	2130
English Regnal year	26 Hen. 2 – 27 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1724
Burmese calendar	542
Byzantine calendar	6688–6689
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3876 or 3816     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3877 or 3817
Coptic calendar	896–897
Discordian calendar	2346
Ethiopian calendar	1172–1173
Hebrew calendar	4940–4941
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1236–1237
- Shaka Samvat	1102–1103
- Kali Yuga	4281–4282
Holocene calendar	11180
Igbo calendar	180–181
Iranian calendar	558–559
Islamic calendar	575–576
Japanese calendar	Jishō 4 (治承４年)
Julian calendar	1180 MCLXXX
Korean calendar	3513
Minguo calendar	732 before ROC 民前732年
Seleucid era	1491/1492 AG
Thai solar calendar	1722–1723

Year 1180 (MCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

America

• The last major volcanic eruption occurs of Sunset Crater, in Arizona.

Asia

• During the third year of the Jishō era of Japan, a devastating whirlwind damages Kyoto.
• Emperor Antoku succeeds Emperor Takakura as emperor of Japan.
• Prince Mochihito amasses a large army and instigates the Genpei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
• Kilij Arslan II allies with Saladin after the death of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.

Europe

• April 13 – Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter.
• September 24 – Alexios II Komnenos becomes Byzantine Emperor.
• September 18 – Philip II becomes King of France.
• Afonso I of Portugal is taken prisoner by Ferdinand II of León.
• The Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho wins a second victory in two years against the Almohad fleet.
• Artois is annexed by France.
• Frederick Barbarossa removes Henry the Lion from the Duchy of Saxony, and creates the Duchies of Westphalia and Styria.
• The Wittelsbach family takes control of Bavaria.

By topic

Culture

• Alexander Neckam becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes De Natura Rerum, an early mention of chess (approximate date).

Demography

• Estimation: Hangzhou, capital of Southern Song China, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Fes in the Almohad Empire.

Births

• August 6 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
• Berenguela of Castile, queen of Alfonso IX of Castile (d. 1246)
• Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1230)
• King Eric X of Sweden (d. 1216) (possible date)
• Xia Gui, Chinese painter (d. c. 1230) (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 30 – Al-Mustadi, Caliph (b. 1142)
• September 18 – King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
• September 24 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
• October 25 – John of Salisbury, French bishop (b. c. 1120)
• Abraham ibn Daud, philosopher (martyred) (b. c. 1120)
• Roman I of Kiev
• Yaroslav II of Kiev
• Prince Mochihito, son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
• Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese samurai (b. 1106)
• Zhu Shuzhen, Chinese female poet