| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1150s 1160s 1170s – 1180s – 1190s 1200s 1210s |
| Years: | 1185 1186 1187 – 1188 – 1189 1190 1191 |
| 1188 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1188 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1188 MCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1941 |
| Armenian calendar | 637 ԹՎ ՈԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5938 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -656–-655 |
| Bengali calendar | 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 | 丁未年十二月初一日 (3824/3884-12-1) — to —
戊申年十二月十二日(3825/3885-12-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 904–905 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1180–1181 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4948–4949 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1244–1245 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1110–1111 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4289–4290 |
| Holocene calendar | 11188 |
| Iranian calendar | 566–567 |
| Islamic calendar | 583–584 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3521 |
| Minguo calendar | 724 before ROC 民前724年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1731 |
Year 1188 (MCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.