Centuries:	11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  - 1170s -  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1175 1176 1177 - 1178 - 1179 1180 1181

1178 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

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Art and literature

1178 in poetry v • d • e

1178 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1178 MCLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1931
Armenian calendar	627 ԹՎ ՈԻԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-666 – -665
Berber calendar	2128
Buddhist calendar	1722
Burmese calendar	540
Chinese calendar	3814/3874-12-11 (丁酉年十二月十一日) — to — 3815/3875-11-21 (戊戌年十一月廿一日)
Coptic calendar	894 – 895
Ethiopian calendar	1170 – 1171
Hebrew calendar	4938 – 4939
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1233 – 1234
- Shaka Samvat	1100 – 1101
- Kali Yuga	4279 – 4280
Holocene calendar	11178
Iranian calendar	556 – 557
Islamic calendar	573 – 574
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3511
Thai solar calendar	1721
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Events

• June 18 — Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.
• The Sung Document is written, detailing the discovery of "Mu-Lan-Pi" (suggested by some to be California) by Muslim sailors.
• The Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury is written.
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa begins to lean as the third level is completed.
• The Cham sack the Khmer capital near Angkor Wat.

Births

• December 22 — Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)
• Armand de Périgord, Grand Master of the Knights Templar (d. c. 1247)
• Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian and politician (d. 1241)
• Thomas I of Savoy (d. 1233)
• Wuzhun Shifan, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (d. 1249)

Deaths

• Evermode of Ratzeburg, bishop of Ratzeburg