1187

1187 (MCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1187th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 187th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 12th century, and the 8th year of the 1180s decade. As of the start of 1187, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1187 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1187 MCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1940
Armenian calendar	636 ԹՎ ՈԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	5937
Balinese saka calendar	1108–1109
Bengali calendar	594
Berber calendar	2137
English Regnal year	33 Hen. 2 – 34 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1731
Burmese calendar	549
Byzantine calendar	6695–6696
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3883 or 3823     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3884 or 3824
Coptic calendar	903–904
Discordian calendar	2353
Ethiopian calendar	1179–1180
Hebrew calendar	4947–4948
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1243–1244
- Shaka Samvat	1108–1109
- Kali Yuga	4287–4288
Holocene calendar	11187
Igbo calendar	187–188
Iranian calendar	565–566
Islamic calendar	582–583
Japanese calendar	Bunji 3 (文治３年)
Javanese calendar	1094–1095
Julian calendar	1187 MCLXXXVII
Korean calendar	3520
Minguo calendar	725 before ROC 民前725年
Nanakshahi calendar	−281
Seleucid era	1498/1499 AG
Thai solar calendar	1729–1730
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 1313 or 932 or 160     — to — མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Sheep) 1314 or 933 or 161

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)