1176 - Definition and Overview

Events

• May 22 - Murder attempt by the Hashshashin on Saladin near Aleppo
• Raynald of Chatillon released from prison in Aleppo
• May 29 - Frederick Barbarossa is defeated in the Battle of Legnano by the Lombard League leading to the pactum Anagninum (the Agreement of Anagni)
• September 17 - Seljuk Turks defeat Manuel I Comnenus at the Battle of Myriokephalon
• Construction begins on the London Bridge
• Cathedral in Sens installs first "horologe"
• Aberdeen becomes a royal burgh.

Births

• Rastko Nemanjic, serbian prince and archbishop later canonized as Saint Sava
• Leopold VI of Austria

Deaths

• Emperor Rokujo of Japan
• Rosamund Clifford, Mistress to Henry II
• Richard de Clare, Anglo-Norman earl also known as "Strongbow"
• Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine