1183

This article is about the year 1183.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1180 1181 1182 – 1183 – 1184 1185 1186

1183 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1183 in poetry

1183 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1183 MCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1936
Armenian calendar	632 ԹՎ ՈԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	5933
Bengali calendar	590
Berber calendar	2133
English Regnal year	29 Hen. 2 – 30 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1727
Burmese calendar	545
Byzantine calendar	6691–6692
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3879 or 3819     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3880 or 3820
Coptic calendar	899–900
Discordian calendar	2349
Ethiopian calendar	1175–1176
Hebrew calendar	4943–4944
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1239–1240
- Shaka Samvat	1105–1106
- Kali Yuga	4284–4285
Holocene calendar	11183
Igbo calendar	183–184
Iranian calendar	561–562
Islamic calendar	578–579
Japanese calendar	Juei 2 (寿永２年)
Julian calendar	1183 MCLXXXIII
Korean calendar	3516
Minguo calendar	729 before ROC 民前729年
Seleucid era	1494/1495 AG
Thai solar calendar	1725–1726

Year 1183 (MCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• June 25 – The Peace of Constance is signed between Frederick Barbarossa and the Lombard League.
• Three-year-old Emperor Go-Toba ascends to the throne of Japan after the forced abdication of his brother Emperor Antoku during the Genpei War.
• August 14 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
• William of Tyre is excommunicated by the newly appointed Heraclius of Jerusalem, firmly ending their struggle for power.
• Andronicus I Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor.
• Joseph of Exeter writes the first account of a sport resembling cricket.
• The Siege of Kerak is waged between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders, in which regent Guy of Lusignan refuses to fight.
• Saladin conquers Syria and becomes sultan.

Births

• Chagatai Khan, Second son of Genghis Khan, Khan of the Chagatai Khanate (d. 1241 or 1242)

Deaths

• June 11 – Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
• July – Maria Comnena (Porphyrogenita), Byzantine princess (poisoned) (b. 1149)
• October – Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1167)
• November 23 – William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (b. 1116)
• Renier of Montferrat (the Caesar John), Italian husband of Maria Comnena (poisoned) (b. 1162)