1188

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Calendar year

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
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Years:	1185 1186 1187 1188 1189 1190 1191
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1188 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 1188
MCLXXXVIII

Ab urbe condita 1941

Armenian calendar 637
ԹՎ ՈԼԷ

Assyrian calendar 5938

Balinese saka calendar 1109–1110

Bengali calendar 594–595

Berber calendar 2138

English Regnal year 34 Hen. 2 – 35 Hen. 2

Buddhist calendar 1732

Burmese calendar 550

Byzantine calendar 6696–6697

Chinese calendar 丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3885 or 3678
— to —
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3886 or 3679

Coptic calendar 904–905

Discordian calendar 2354

Ethiopian calendar 1180–1181

Hebrew calendar 4948–4949

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 1244–1245

- Shaka Samvat 1109–1110

- Kali Yuga 4288–4289

Holocene calendar 11188

Igbo calendar 188–189

Iranian calendar 566–567

Islamic calendar 583–584

Japanese calendar Bunji 4
(文治4年)

Javanese calendar 1095–1096

Julian calendar 1188
MCLXXXVIII

Korean calendar 3521

Minguo calendar 724 before ROC
民前724年

Nanakshahi calendar −280

Seleucid era 1499/1500 AG

Thai solar calendar 1730–1731

Tibetan calendar 阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
1314 or 933 or 161
— to —
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1315 or 934 or 162

Krak des Chevaliers by Al-Husn (Syria)

Year 1188 (MCLXXXVIII ) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

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Europe

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January 22 – King Ferdinand II dies after returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He is succeeded by his 16-year-old son Alfonso IX, who becomes ruler of León and Galicia. He convenes representatives of the nobility, clergy and towns at the Basilica of San Isidoro the Cortes of León. These Corteses are considered to be the first parliament in Europe.
Spring – King Henry II and Philip II (Augustus) meet at Le Mans, with Archbishop Josias (or Joscius) in attendance. Both kings agree to peace terms, and to contribute to a joint Crusade. It is decided to raise a new tax to pay for the expedition. This tax, known as the Saladin Tithe, is imposed on the people of England and France to raise funds for the Third Crusade.
March 27 – Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) holds a Diet at Mainz and takes the Cross, followed by his 21-year-old son, Frederick IV, and other German nobles. He sends a delegation to present an ultimatum to Saladin in Syria on May 26. With demands to withdraw his Muslim forces from Palestina and to return the True Cross to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
November – Richard of Poitou, son of Henry II, allies himself with Philip II and pays him homage. He promises to concede his rights to both Normandy and Anjou. Henry is overpowered by Richard's supporters, who chase him from Le Mans to Angers. They force him to accept peace by conceding to all demands, including the recognition of Richard as his successor.^[1]
The Cutting of the Elm: A meeting of Henry II and Philip II in the field at Gisors, in Normandy. It marks the Franco-Norman peace negotiations, following the Fall of Jerusalem (see 1187).

Levant

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Spring – Siege of Tyre: Muslim forces under Saladin withdraw from Tyre after a 11⁄2-month siege. For the Crusaders, the city-port becomes a strategic rallying point for the Christian revival during the Third Crusade.
May 14 – Saladin begins a campaign and marches north but finds Tripoli too strong to be besieged. He decides to take other Crusader fortifications and signs an 8-month truce with Prince Bohemond III of Antioch.
May – Saladin besieges the Hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers, in Syria. Seeing that the castle is too well defended, instead he decides to march on the Castle of Margat, which he also fails to capture.^[2]
July – Saladin marches through the Buqaia, and occupies Jabala and Lattakieh. From Lattakieh he turns inland and, after a few days of fierce fighting, takes Sahyun Castle (called Castle of Saladin) on July 29.^[3]
September 4 – King Guy of Lusignan is released by Saladin after Ascalon is forced to surrender. Guy and his wife, Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem, seek refuge in Tyre, which is defended by Conrad of Montferrat.

England

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Spring – Henry II institutes legal reforms that give the Crown more control over the administration of justice. He orders Newgate Prison be built in London.^[4]
Archdeacon Giraldus Cambrensis and Archbishop Baldwin of Forde travel through Wales, attempting to recruit men for the Third Crusade.

Births

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March 4 – Blanche of Castile, queen and regent of France (d. 1252)
March 24 – Ferdinand (or Ferrand), count of Flanders (d. 1233)
November 26 – Yuri II of Vladimir, Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1238)
Albert IV (the Wise), German nobleman and knight (d. 1239)
Matilda I, countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre (d. 1257)
Si Inthrathit, Thai founder of the Sukhothai Kingdom (d. 1270)

Deaths

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January 22 – Ferdinand II, king of León and Galicia (b. 1137)
January 26 – Eysteinn Erlendsson, Norwegian archbishop^[5]
1188 – Death of Seljuki Khatun
October 11 – Robert I (the Great), count of Dreux (b. 1123)
November 4 – Theobald of Ostia, French abbot and bishop
November 17 – Usama ibn Munqidh, Arabian poet and knight (b. 1095)
December 14 – Berthold I, margrave of Istria and Carniola
December 22 – Richard of Ilchester, bishop of Winchester
Aoife MacMurrough (or Eva), princess of Leinster (b. 1145)
Guigo II, prior of the Grande Chatreuse ^[6]
Hugh the Chaplain, bishop of Cell Rigmonaid (St. Andrews)
Roger de Mowbray, English nobleman and knight (b. 1120)

References

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^ Warren, W. L. (2000). Henry II (Yale ed.), pp. 621–622. New Haven, U.S.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08474-0.
^ Kennedy, Hugh (1994). Crusader Castles, p. 147. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-42068-7.
^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 383. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
^ Halliday, Stephen (2007). Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-3896-9.
^ Dybdahl, Audun. "Øystein Erlendsson". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
^ Colledge, O.S.A., Edmund; Walsh, S.J., James (1981). The ladder of monks: A letter on the contemplative life and Twelve Meditations. Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-87907-848-5 . Retrieved March 8, 2024.

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