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Year 1175 (MCLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • A Song Dynasty Chinese written record of this year states that a paper-printed-money factory in the city of Hangzhou alone employs a daily work force of more than 1,000.
  • Ly Cao Ton becomes ruler of Vietnam.
  • The Kingdom of Namayan reaches its peak on Luzon.

    • Europe

    British isles
  • Henry II of England begins living openly with his friend Rosamund Clifford, raising suspicions about their relationship & alienating Henry's wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Treaty of Windsor: Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (Rory O'Conner), the last High King of Ireland, submits to Henry II as vassal of Ireland.
  • The Massacre of Abergavenny ends with several Welsh noblemen dead at the orders of William de Braose.

    • Denmark

  • Vordingborg Castle is completed.
    • Byzantium
  • Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus restores the trading privileges of Venice.
    • Iberia
  • Under the admirals of the clan Banu Mardanish, an Almohad fleet suffers a large defeat at the hand of the Portuguese, as they were trying to reconquer Lisbon.

    • Religion

  • The high academy of Bosnian religious organization in Moštre, Visoko, is first mentioned in Vatican archives.
  • William of Tyre becomes archbishop of Tyre.

    • Births

  • date unknown
  • Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1218)
  • Roger III of Sicily (d. 1194)
  • Michael Scot, Scottish mathematician and astrologer (d. 1232)
  • probable
  • Frederick I of Austria (d. 1198)
  • Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, theologian and bishop (d. 1253)

    • Deaths

  • May 15 – King Mleh, Prince of Armenia
  • November 13 – Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims (b. c.1121)

    • References

    1175 Wikipedia
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