1191
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| Centuries: | 11th century - 12th century - 13th century |
| Decades: | 1160s 1170s 1180s - 1190s - 1200s 1210s 1220s |
| Years: | 1188 1189 1190 - 1191 - 1192 1193 1194 |
| 1191 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1191 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1191 MCXCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1944 |
| Armenian calendar | 640 ԹՎ ՈԽ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -653 – -652 |
| Berber calendar | 2141 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1735 |
| Burmese calendar | 553 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6699 – 6700 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年十二月初四日 (3827/3887-12-4) — to —
辛亥年十二月十四日(3828/3888-12-14) |
| Coptic calendar | 907 – 908 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1183 – 1184 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4951 – 4952 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1246 – 1247 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1113 – 1114 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4292 – 4293 |
| Holocene calendar | 11191 |
| Iranian calendar | 569 – 570 |
| Islamic calendar | 586 – 587 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3524 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1734 |
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[edit] Events
- April 14 — Pope Celestine III succeeds Pope Clement III as the 175th pope.
- April 17 — Tusculum is destroyed by the Commune of Rome's army.
- May 12 — Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
- July 12 — Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
- September 7 — Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf — Richard I of England defeats Saladin.
- November 27 — Reginald fitz Jocelin is elected Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned by Pope Celestine III.
- The monks of Glastonbury Abbey announce that they have found the burial sites of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.
- Duke Berthold V of Zähringen founds the city of Berne (present-day Switzerland).
- Khmer King Jayavarman VII sacks the capital of Champa.
- Eisai founds the Rinzai Zen sect in Japan.
- The first reference to the windmill in Europe is made by a Dean Herbert of East Anglia, whose mills supposedly were in competition with the abbey of Bury St Edmunds; although hinted as being created as early as the 7th century, the first windmills were most likely innovated from the Bana Musa brothers in the Islamic Middle East during the middle 9th century; the windmill was introduced to China by as early as 1219.
[edit] Births
- February 8 — Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
[edit] Deaths
- March 20 — Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
- March 27 — Pope Clement III
- December 26 — Reginald fitz Jocelin, Archbishop-elect of Canterbury
- William V, Marquess of Montferrat, Burgundian crusader (b. c. 1115)
[edit] In Popular Culture
- The video game Assassin's Creed is set in this year.
