1177

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

Events

• January – Eystein Meyla, leader of the Birkebeiner in Norway, is killed. Sverre Sigurdson (Later, King Sverre I, of Norway) becomes the new leader.
• January 13 - Leopold V becomes Duke of Austria.
• March – Treaty of Venice: Frederick I Barbarossa acknowledges Alexander III as Pope.
• August 1 – Holy Roman Empire renounces any claims on the territory of Rome.
• September 27 – Pope Alexander III sends a letter to Prester John, believing he is real.
• November 25 – Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin.
• During the third year of the Angen era in Japan, a fire devastates Kyoto.
• Benedictus Abbas becomes abbot of Peterborough.
• Byland Abbey is founded in Yorkshire by the Cistercians.
• Casimir II becomes duke of Poland.
• The Cham sack the Khmer capital of Angkor Wat.
• Roger de Moulins becomes Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.
• Moscow is burned down and its inhabitants are killed.
• Puigcerdà is founded by Alfonso II of Aragon.
• The Estonians attack Pskov during the winter.
• A civil war breaks out in Florence between the Uberti family and their consular opponent.

Births

• February/March – Philip of Swabia, rival of Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1208)
• August – Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (d. 1186)
• December 22 – Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)

Deaths

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

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