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Year 1176 (MCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • January – The Assize of Northampton is enacted in England.
  • May 22 – The Hashshashin attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
  • May 29 – Battle of Legnano: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated by the Lombard League, leading to the pactum Anagninum (the Agreement of Anagni).
  • September 17 – Battle of Myriokephalon: The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
  • Al-Adil I, the Muslim ruler of Egypt, suppresses a revolt by the Christian Copts in the city of Qift, hanging nearly 3,000 of them on the trees around the city.
  • Raynald of Châtillon is ransomed from prison in Aleppo.
  • Construction begins on a stone-built London Bridge.
  • The first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod is held by Rhys ap Gruffydd at Cardigan.
  • Unkei completes his Dainichi Nyorai (Enjō-ji) statue, now a National Treasure of Japan.
  • Sens Cathedral installs an horologe, presumed to be an early form of clock.
  • The Carthusians are approved as a religious order.

    • Births

  • Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1220)
  • Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (d. 1230)
  • William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (approximate date; d. 1226)

    • Deaths

  • April 18 – Saint Galdino della Sala, Italian archdeacon
  • April 20 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
  • May 13 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
  • August 23 – Emperor Rokujō of Japan (b. 1164)
  • October 12 – William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. c. 1109)
  • date unknown – Margrethe of Roskilde, Danish local saint
  • probable
  • Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (b. 1150)
  • Michael Aspietes, Byzantine general

    • References

    1176 Wikipedia
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