1183

Year 1183 (MCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

1183 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1183 MCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1936
Armenian calendar	632 ԹՎ ՈԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	5933
Balinese saka calendar	1104–1105
Bengali calendar	589–590
Berber calendar	2133
English Regnal year	29 Hen. 2 – 30 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1727
Burmese calendar	545
Byzantine calendar	6691–6692
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3880 or 3673     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3881 or 3674
Coptic calendar	899–900
Discordian calendar	2349
Ethiopian calendar	1175–1176
Hebrew calendar	4943–4944
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1239–1240
- Shaka Samvat	1104–1105
- Kali Yuga	4283–4284
Holocene calendar	11183
Igbo calendar	183–184
Iranian calendar	561–562
Islamic calendar	578–579
Japanese calendar	Juei 2 (寿永２年)
Javanese calendar	1090–1091
Julian calendar	1183 MCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3516
Minguo calendar	729 before ROC 民前729年
Nanakshahi calendar	−285
Seleucid era	1494/1495 AG
Thai solar calendar	1725–1726
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) 1309 or 928 or 156     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Water-Hare) 1310 or 929 or 157

Events

By area

Byzantine Empire

• Andronicus I Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor.^[1][2]
• October – Alexios II Komnenos is murdered, after a 3-year reign at Constantinople. Andronikos I, 64, is proclaimed emperor of the Byzantine Empire before the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalke. He marries Alexios' widow, the 11-year-old Agnes of France.

• November – Andronikos makes a treaty with Venice, in which he promises a yearly indemnity as compensation for Venetian losses, during the Massacre of the Latins.^[3]

Europe

• June 25 – The Peace of Constance is signed, between Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard League, forming the legal basis for the autonomy of the Italian city republics.^[4][5][6]
• Joseph of Exeter writes the first account of a sport resembling cricket.^[7]

Asia

Japan

• Three-year-old Emperor Go-Toba ascends to the throne of Japan, after the forced abdication of his brother Emperor Antoku, during the Genpei War.^[8][9][10]
• August 14 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures, and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).^[11][12]
• November 17 – Battle of Mizushima: The Taira Clan defeats the Minamoto Clan.^[13][14]

Near East

• February – Raynald of Châtillon has at least five ships freighted over the Isthmus of Suez, which he then uses to pillage the shores of the Red Sea around Jeddah.
• William of Tyre is excommunicated by the newly appointed Heraclius of Jerusalem, firmly ending their struggle for power.^[15][16]
• The Siege of Kerak is waged between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders, in which regent Guy of Lusignan refuses to fight.^[17][18]
• Saladin conquers Syria and becomes sultan.^[19][20]

Births

• Chagatai Khan, second son of Genghis Khan, Khan of the Chagatai Khanate (d. 1241 or 1242)^[21][22]
• Philippa of Armenia, empress consort of Nicaea

Deaths

• June 11 – Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)^[23][24][25]
• October – Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1167)^[26][27][28]
• November 23 – William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (b. 1116)^[29]
• Queen Gongye, Korean queen consort (b. 1109)^[30][31]