Explore 57 historical events from 1180–1189.
Vardzia is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza. The ma…
The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
The sack of Thessalonica in 1185 by Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily was one of the worst disasters to befall the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century.
Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
Isaac II Angelos or Angelus was Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and co-Emperor with his son Alexios IV Angelos from 1203 to 1204. In an 1185 revolt against the Emperor Androni…
Isaac II Angelos kills Stephen Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that…
Isaac II Angelos or Angelus was Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and co-Emperor with his son Alexios IV Angelos from 1203 to 1204. In an 1185 revolt against the Emperor Androni…
Isaac Angelos is crowned Byzantine emperor following the deposition of Andronikos I Komnenos and after the crowd…
The Uprising of Asen and Peter was a revolt of Bulgarians and Vlachs living in Moesia and the Balkan Mountains, then the theme of Paristrion of the Byzantine Empire, caused by a ta…
The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of…
Afonso II, also called Afonso the Fat and Afonso the Leper, was King of Portugal from 1211 until 1223. Afonso was the third monarch of Portugal.
Afonso II of Portugal (died 1223)
Emperor Antoku was the 81st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1180 through 1185. His death marked the end of the…
Emperor Antoku of Japan (born 1178)
Richeza of Poland was a Polish princess of the House of Piast in the Silesian branch. By her marriages she was Queen consort of Galicia, León and Castile, Countess of Provence, and…
Richeza of Poland, queen of León (born c
Taira no Munemori was heir to Taira no Kiyomori, and one of the Taira clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War.
Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (born 1147)
Stefan was the first Archbishop of Uppsala in Sweden in the year 1164, a post he held until his death.
Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala (born before 1143)
Stephen Hagiochristophorites was the most powerful member of the court of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos. He was killed while trying to arrest Isaac II Angelos, who subseq…
Stephen Hagiochristophorites, Byzantine courtier (born 1130)
Andronikos I Komnenos, Latinized as Andronicus I Comnenus, was Byzantine emperor from 1183 to 1185. A nephew of John II Komnenos, Andronikos rose to fame in the reign of his cousin…
Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)
The Battle of Fimreite was a naval battle fought on June 15, 1184, between King Magnus Erlingsson and the Birkebeiner supported Sverre Sigurdsson. At this time in Norwegian history…
The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson
On 26 July 1184, in the German city of Erfurt, approximately sixty local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed through the ground floor and into the latrine cesspit be…
Erfurt latrine disaster: At a Hoftag, a meeting with local notables, organized by Henry VI, the building collapses and…
Magnus Erlingsson, also known as Magnus V, was a king of Norway during the civil war era in Norway. He helped to establish primogeniture in royal succession in Norway. King Magnus …
Magnus Erlingsson, King of Norway (born 1156)
Abu Ya‘qub Yusuf or Yusuf I was the second Almohad Amir or caliph. He reigned from 1163 until 1184 in Marrakesh. He was responsible for the construction of the Giralda in Seville, …
Yusuf I, Almohad caliph (born 1135)
The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery was a Syriac Orthodox monastery located between Gargar and Malatya in Turkey. The monastery served as the regular patriarchal residence from the elevent…
The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery is destroyed by a fire.
Taira no Munemori was heir to Taira no Kiyomori, and one of the Taira clan's chief commanders in the Genpei War.
Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western…
Henry the Young King was the eldest son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine to survive childhood. In 1170, he became titular King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of…
Henry the Young King of England (born 1155)
Otto I, called the Redhead, was Duke of Bavaria from 1180 until his death. He was the first Bavarian ruler from the House of Wittelsbach, a dynasty which reigned until the abdicati…
Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria (born 1117)
Minamoto no Yoriie was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the second shōgun (1202–1203) of the Kamakura shogunate and the first son of its founder, Minamoto no Yoritomo. His Dharma na…
Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shōgun (died 1204)
Valdemar I Knudsen, also known as Valdemar the Great, was King of Denmark from 1154 until his death in 1182. The reign of King Valdemar I saw the rise of Denmark, which reached its…
Valdemar I, king of Denmark (born 1131)
John Komnenos Vatatzes, or simply John Komnenos or John Vatatzes in the sources, was a major military and political figure in the Byzantine Empire during the reigns of Manuel I Kom…
John Komnenos Vatatzes, Byzantine general (born 1132)
Pope Lucius III, born Ubaldo Allucingoli, reigned as head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 September 1181 to his death in 1185. Born to an aristocratic f…
Election of pope Lucius III following the death of pope Alexander III in the previous month.