1184

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1150s  1160s  1170s  – 1180s –  1190s  1200s  1210s
Years:	1181 1182 1183 – 1184 – 1185 1186 1187

Events

• Abbeville receives its commercial charter.
• The Battle of Fimreite takes place.
• Archbishop Absalon of Lund wins a naval victory over Bogislav, duke of Pomerania.
• Streets of Paris paved by order of Philip Augustus.
• Second Battle of Uji
• Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur — third Almohad Caliph
• Papal bull ad aboldendam issued against several European heretical groups: the Cathars, the Waldensians, the Patarines and the Humiliati. It was created after a landmark meeting between the Holy Roman Empire under Frederick Barbarossa and the Roman Church under Pope Lucius III.

Births

• April 11 — William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg (d. 1213)
• Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (approximate date; d. 1241)
• Saadi, Iranian poet (d. 1291)

Deaths

• February 16 — Richard of Dover, Archbishop of Canterbury
• March 27 — Giorgi III, king of Georgia
• June 15 — Magnus Erlingsson, king of Norway (b. 1156)
• July 29 — Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph

Heads of states

• England — Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154–1189).
• France — Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180–1223).