1185
| Years: 1182 1183 1184 - 1185 - 1186 1187 1188 | |
| Decades: 1150s 1160s 1170s - 1180s - 1190s 1200s 1210s | |
| Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century | |
| 1185 by topic | |
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| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1185 MCLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1938 |
| Armenian calendar | 634 ԹՎ ՈԼԴ |
| Chinese calendar | 3821/3881-11-28 (甲辰年十一月廿八日) — to — 3822/3882-12-8(乙巳年十二月初八日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1177 – 1178 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4945 – 4946 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1240 – 1241 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1107 – 1108 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4286 – 4287 |
| Iranian calendar | 563 – 564 |
| Islamic calendar | 581 – 582 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1728 |
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Events
- April 25 - Genpei War - Naval battle of Dan-no-ura leads to Minamoto victory in Japan.
- August 15 - The cave city of Vardzia was consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
- September 11 - Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt which deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.
- Templars settle in London and begin the building of New Temple Church.
- End of the Heian Period and beginning of the Kamakura period in Japan.
- Founding of Katedralskolan in Lund, Sweden. The school is the oldest in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe.
- Peter and Asen led a revolt of the Vlachs and Bulgars against the Byzantine Empire, eventually establishing the Second Bulgarian Kingdom.
- November 25 - Pope Urban III succeeds Pope Lucius III as the 170th pope.
Births
- April 23 - King Afonso II of Portugal (died 1223)
- Inge II of Norway (died 1217)
- Gertrude of Merania, queen of Andrew II of Hungary (died 1213)
Deaths
- April 25 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (born 1178)
- June 16 - Richeza of Poland, daughter of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland
- July 18 - Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala
- July 25 - King Afonso I of Portugal (born 1109)
- September 12 - Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor
- November 25 - Pope Lucius III
- December 6 - King Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
- Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)
- Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (born 1147)
- Taira no Noritsune, Japanese soldier (born 1160)
- Taira no Shigehira, Japanese soldier (born 1158)
- Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (born 1152)
- Ibn Tufail, Arab philosopher, physician, and courtier
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