1191

All you want to know about 1191

Centuries:	11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Decades:	1160s 1170s 1180s - 1190s - 1200s 1210s 1220s
Years:	1188 1189 1190 - 1191 - 1192 1193 1194

1191 by topic
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e
Art and literature
1191 in poetry v • d • e

**1191 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1191 MCXCI
Ab urbe condita	1944
Armenian calendar	640 ԹՎ ՈԽ
Bahá'í calendar	-653 – -652
Berber calendar	2141
Buddhist calendar	1735
Burmese calendar	553
Byzantine calendar	6699 – 6700
Chinese calendar	庚戌年十二月初四日 (3827/3887-12-4) — to — 辛亥年十二月十四日 (3828/3888-12-14)
Coptic calendar	907 – 908
Ethiopian calendar	1183 – 1184
Hebrew calendar	4951 – 4952
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1246 – 1247
- Shaka Samvat	1113 – 1114
- Kali Yuga	4292 – 4293
Holocene calendar	11191
Iranian calendar	569 – 570
Islamic calendar	586 – 587
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3524
Thai solar calendar	1734
v • d • e

Contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 In Popular Culture

Events

April 14 — Pope Celestine III succeeds Pope Clement III as the 175th pope.
April 17 — Tusculum is destroyed by the Commune of Rome's army.
May 12 — Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
July 12 — Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
September 7 — Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf — Richard I of England defeats Saladin.
November 27 — Reginald fitz Jocelin is elected Archbishop of Canterbury.
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned by Pope Celestine III.
The monks of Glastonbury Abbey announce that they have found the burial sites of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.
Duke Berthold V of Zähringen founds the city of Berne (present-day Switzerland).
Khmer King Jayavarman VII sacks the capital of Champa.
Eisai founds the Rinzai Zen sect in Japan.
The first reference to the windmill in Europe is made by a Dean Herbert of East Anglia, whose mills supposedly were in competition with the abbey of Bury St Edmunds; although hinted as being created as early as the 7th century, the first windmills were most likely innovated from the Bana Musa brothers in the Islamic Middle East during the middle 9th century; the windmill was introduced to China by as early as 1219.

Births

February 8 — Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)

Deaths

March 20 — Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
March 27 — Pope Clement III
December 26 — Reginald fitz Jocelin, Archbishop-elect of Canterbury
William V, Marquess of Montferrat, Burgundian crusader (b. c. 1115)

In Popular Culture

The video game Assassin's Creed is set in this year.

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