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Year 1181 (MCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Jayavarman VII defeats the Cham and assumes control of the Khmer kingdom.
  • The Yowa era, marked by famine, begins in Japan.

    • Europe

  • After a series of defeats, the Almohad navy, under the admiral Ahmad al-Siqilli, crushes the Portuguese fleet and reassert their control over the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The word Albigensians is first used by chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois to describe the inhabitants of Albi, France.
  • Philip Augustus annuls all loans made by Jews to Christians and takes a percentage for himself. A year later, he confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris.

    • Science

  • Chinese and Japanese astronomers observe what has since come to be understood as supernova SN 1181. One of only eight supernovae in the Milky Way observed in recorded history, it appears in the constellation Cassiopeia and is visible in the night sky for about 185 days. The radio source 3C58 is thought to be the remnant from this event.
  • Guilhem VIII, lord of Montpellier in France, frees the teaching of medicine from any monopoly (January).

    • Religion

  • September 1 – Pope Lucius III succeeds Pope Alexander III as the 171st pope.

    • Births

  • date unknown – Jochi, military leader, eldest son of Genghis Khan (d. 1227)

    • Deaths

  • January 30 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
  • March 16 – Henry I, Count of Champagne
  • June 30 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
  • August 30 – Pope Alexander III (b. c. 1100–1105)
  • Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese warlord (b. 1118)
  • As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (b. 1163)

    • References

    1181 Wikipedia
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