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Year 1180 (MCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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America

  • The last major volcanic eruption occurs of Sunset Crater, in Arizona.

    • Asia

  • During the third year of the Jishō era of Japan, a devastating whirlwind damages Kyoto.
  • Emperor Antoku succeeds Emperor Takakura as emperor of Japan.
  • Prince Mochihito amasses a large army and instigates the Genpei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans.
  • Kilij Arslan II allies with Saladin after the death of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.

    • Europe

  • April 13 – Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen Charter.
  • September 24 – Alexios II Komnenos succeeds as Byzantine Emperor on the death of his father Manuel I Komnenos.
  • September 18 – Philip II becomes King of France.
  • Afonso I of Portugal is taken prisoner by Ferdinand II of León.
  • The Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho wins a second victory in two years against the Almohad fleet.
  • Artois is annexed by France.
  • Frederick Barbarossa removes Henry the Lion from the Duchy of Saxony, and creates the Duchies of Westphalia and Styria.
  • The Wittelsbach family takes control of Bavaria.

    • Culture

  • Alexander Neckam becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes De Natura Rerum, an early mention of chess (approximate date).

    • Demography

  • Estimation: Hangzhou, capital of Southern Song China, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Fes in the Almohad Empire.

    • Births

  • August 6 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
  • Berengaria of Castile, queen of Alfonso IX of Castile (d. 1246)
  • Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1230)
  • King Eric X of Sweden (d. 1216) (possible date)
  • Xia Gui, Chinese painter (d. c. 1230) (approximate date)

    • Deaths

  • March 30 – Al-Mustadi, Caliph (b. 1142)
  • September 18 – King Louis VII of France (b. 1120)
  • September 24 – Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
  • October 25 – John of Salisbury, French bishop (b. c. 1120)
  • Abraham ibn Daud, philosopher (martyred) (b. c. 1120)
  • Roman I of Kiev
  • Yaroslav II of Kiev
  • Prince Mochihito, son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
  • Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese samurai (b. 1106)
  • Zhu Shuzhen, Chinese female poet

    • References

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