1177

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

1177 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1177 MCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1930
Armenian calendar	626 ԹՎ ՈԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	5927
Balinese saka calendar	1098–1099
Bengali calendar	584
Berber calendar	2127
English Regnal year	23  Hen. 2  – 24  Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1721
Burmese calendar	539
Byzantine calendar	6685–6686
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire  Monkey) 3874 or 3667     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire  Rooster) 3875 or 3668
Coptic calendar	893–894
Discordian calendar	2343
Ethiopian calendar	1169–1170
Hebrew calendar	4937–4938
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1233–1234
- Shaka Samvat	1098–1099
- Kali Yuga	4277–4278
Holocene calendar	11177
Igbo calendar	177–178
Iranian calendar	555–556
Islamic calendar	572–573
Japanese calendar	Angen 3 / Jishō 1 (治承元年)
Javanese calendar	1084–1085
Julian calendar	1177 MCLXXVII
Korean calendar	3510
Minguo calendar	735 before ROC 民前735年
Nanakshahi calendar	−291
Seleucid era	1488/1489 AG
Thai solar calendar	1719–1720
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1303 or 922 or 150     — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1304 or 923 or 151

Year 1177 ( MCLXXVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January – Eystein Meyla, leader of the Birkebeiner in Norway, is killed. Sverre Sigurdson (Later, King Sverre I, of Norway) becomes the new leader. ^[1]
• January 13 – Leopold V becomes Duke of Austria. ^[2]
• March – Treaty of Venice: Frederick I Barbarossa acknowledges Alexander III as Pope, after a diplomatic mediation by Venetian doge Sebastiano Ziani. ^{[3] [4]}
• March 16 – The Spanish Award is signed and witnessed by, among others, Robert III de Stuteville and John of Greenford ^{[5] [6]}
• August 1 – The Holy Roman Empire renounces any claims on the territory of Rome. ^[7]
• September 27 – Pope Alexander III sends a letter to Prester John, believing he is real. ^{[8] [9]}
• November 25 – Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin. ^[10]

Date unknown

• During the third year of the Angen era in Japan, a fire devastates Kyoto. ^[11]
• During the winter, the Estonians attack Pskov. ^[12]
• Casimir II overthrows his brother Mieszko III the Old, to become High Duke of Poland. ^[13]
• The Cham sack the Khmer capital of Angkor. The date is disputed. ^{[14] [15]}
• Moscow is burned down by Gleb I, prince of Ryazan, and its inhabitants are killed. ^[16]
• A civil war breaks out in the Republic of Florence, between the Uberti Family and their consular opponent. ^{[17] [18]}
• Puigcerdà is founded by Alfonso II of Aragon. ^[19]
• Byland Abbey is established on its final site in Yorkshire, England, by the Cistercians. ^[20]
• Abbas Benedictus becomes abbot of Peterborough in England. ^[21]
• Roger de Moulins becomes Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. ^[22]
• possible date– Richard FitzNeal begins to write his treatise Dialogus de Scaccario ("Dialogue concerning the Exchequer") in England. ^{[23] [24]}
• The union of Egypt and Syria under Sultan Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub, the foundation of the Ayyubid Sultanate.

Births

• February/March – Philip of Swabia, rival of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1208) ^{[25] [26]}
• August – Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (d. 1186) ^[27]
• Marie of Oignies, French beguin (d. 1213) ^[28]
• Sylvester Gozzolini, Italian founder of the Sylvestrines (d. 1267) ^[29]

Deaths

• January 13 – Henry II, Duke of Austria (b. 1107) ^[30]
• January – Eystein Meyla, leader of the Birkebeiner in Norway. (b. 1157) ^[1]
• June – William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, father of Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. early 1140s) ^{[31] [32]}
• probable– Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk (b. 1095) ^[33]

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16. Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. (2005). Russian Identities: A Historical Survey. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, USA. p. 35. ISBN   9780195156508.
17. Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (1865). A History of the Commonwealth of Florence: From the Earliest Independence of the Commune to the Fall of the Republic in 1531. Vol. I. London: Chapman and Hall. pp. 60–61.
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20. Rickman, Thomas; Parker, John Henry (1862). An attempt to discriminate the styles of English architecture, from the Conquest to the Reformation. Preceded by a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders, with notices of nearly five hundred English buildings (6th ed.). Oxford and London: John Henry & James Parker. pp.  172. 1177 Byland Abbey.
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33. Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris; Courthope, William John (1857). The Historic Peerage of England: Exhibiting, Under Alphabetical Arrangement, the Origin, Descent, and Present State of Every Title of Peerage Which Has Existed in This Country Since the Conquest; Being a New Edition of the "Synopsis of the Peerage of England". London: John Murray. pp.  350. 1177 Hugh Bigod.