1176

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.

 Births 

 Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1220)
 Leopold VI of Austria (d. 1230)
 William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (around date; d. 1226)
 Saint Sava, Serbian prince and archbishop (d. 1235)
 Subutai, Mongol general, tried to bring together the Mongolia

 Deaths 
 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