1176 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s 1150s 1160s – 1170s – 1180s 1190s 1200s
Years:	1173 1174 1175 – 1176 – 1177 1178 1179

Events

January — Assize of Northampton.
May 22 — Murder tried but failed by the Hashshashin on Saladin near Aleppo.
Raynald of Chatillon released from prison in Aleppo.
May 29 — Frederick Barbarossa is beaten.
September 17 — Seljuk Turks beats Manuel I Comnenus at the Battle of Myriokephalon.
Cathedral of Sens makes the first "clock".
Construction begins on the London Bridge.
Aberdeen becomes a royal burgh.
The first recorded Welsh Eisteddfod is held by Rhys ap Gruffydd at Cardigan.

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 Rokujo- of Japan (b. 1164)
October 25 — William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. c. 1109)
Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (b. 1150)
Saint Galdino, Italian archdeacon