1176

1176 was a leap year.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1173 1174 1175 – 1176 – 1177 1178 1179

Events

• January — Assize of Northampton.
• May 22 — Murder tried but failed by the Hashshashin on Saladin near Aleppo.
• Raynald of Chatillon released from prison in Aleppo.
• May 29 — Frederick Barbarossa is beaten.
• September 17 — Seljuk Turks beats Manuel I Comnenus at the Battle of Myriokephalon.
• Cathedral of Sens makes the first "clock".
• Construction begins on the London Bridge.
• Aberdeen becomes a royal burgh.
• The first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod is held by Rhys ap Gruffydd at Cardigan.

Births

• Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1220)
• Leopold VI of Austria (d. 1230)
• William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (around date; d. 1226)
• Saint Sava, Serbian prince and archbishop (d. 1235)
• Subutai, Mongol general, tried to bring together the Mongolia

Deaths

• April 20 — Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
• May 13 — Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
• August 23 — Emperor Rokujo- of Japan (b. 1164)
• October 25 — William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. c. 1109)
• Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (b. 1150)
• Saint Galdino, Italian archdeacon