1186
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1150s 1160s 1170s – 1180s – 1190s 1200s 1210s |
| Years: | 1183 1184 1185 – 1186 – 1187 1188 1189 |
| 1186 by topic | |
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| 1186 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1186 MCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1939 |
| Armenian calendar | 635 ԹՎ ՈԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5936 |
| Bengali calendar | 593 |
| Berber calendar | 2136 |
| English Regnal year | 32 Hen. 2 – 33 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1730 |
| Burmese calendar | 548 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6694–6695 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3882 or 3822 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3883 or 3823 |
| Coptic calendar | 902–903 |
| Discordian calendar | 2352 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1178–1179 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4946–4947 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1242–1243 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1108–1109 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4287–4288 |
| Holocene calendar | 11186 |
| Igbo calendar | 186–187 |
| Iranian calendar | 564–565 |
| Islamic calendar | 581–582 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunji 2 (文治２年) |
| Julian calendar | 1186 MCLXXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3519 |
| Minguo calendar | 726 before ROC 民前726年 |
| Seleucid era | 1497/1498 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1728–1729 |
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Year 1186 (MCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 27 – Constance of Sicily marries Henry (the future Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor).
- John the Chanter becomes Bishop of Exeter.
- The Byzantine Empire recognizes the independence of Bulgaria and Serbia.
- Joscius becomes Archbishop of Tyre.
- Jayavarman VII, the king of Cambodia, founds the temple of Ta Prohm.
- After the death of the child-king Baldwin V, his mother succeeds him as Sibylla of Jerusalem and appoints her disfavoured husband Guy de Lusignan king consort. This comes as a shock to Jerusalem's court, who had earlier forced the possible future Queen into promising that should she become so, she would not appoint him the title.
Births
- May 18 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
- May 28 (probable) – Queen Urraca of Portugal, wife of King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1220)
- Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich, Grand Prince of Kiev
- Ögedei Khan, third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1241)
- Song Ci, Chinese physician and judge (d. 1249)
Deaths
- January 26 – Ismat ad-Din Khatun, wife of Saladin
- May 29 or June 23 or June 24 – Robert of Torigni
- June 1 – Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord
- August 19 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
- August – Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. 1177)
- September 29 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130)