1187

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1187
After victories in the battles of Cresson and at Hattin , Sultan Saladin begins the siege of Jerusalem .
After a few days, Balian von Ibelin hands over the city .
1187 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	635/636 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1179/80
Buddhist calendar	1730/31 (southern Buddhism); 1729/30 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	64th (65th) cycle Year of the fire sheep丁未 ( at the beginning of the year fire horse 丙午)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	549/550 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	565/566
Islamic calendar	582/583 (turn of the year March 12/13)
Jewish calendar	4947/48 (September 4th / 5th)
Coptic calendar	903/904
Malayalam calendar	362/363
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1497/98 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1498/99 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1225
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1243/44 (turn of the year April)

Events

May 1st : The crusaders under Gérard de Ridefort are defeated by the Ayyubids in the battle of the well of Cresson . Gérard flees, making him one of only three survivors. The captured knights of the order are executed.
July 2nd : Saladin conquers Tiberias after a brief siege .
July 4th : With the defeat of the Christian army against Saladin in the Battle of the Horns of Hattin , a large part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem falls to the Muslims .
September 20 : The siege of Jerusalem by Sultan Saladin begins.
October 2 : Saladin conquers Jerusalem , ending 88 years of Christian rule. Balian von Ibelin surrenders the city. Unlike after the conquest by a Christian crusader army, which caused a bloodbath among the civilian population in 1099 , there were no violent riots in the fall of Jerusalem thanks to the surrender. Saladin employs guards who are effective in preventing looting, rape or killings from occurring.
October 29th : In the Bull Audita tremendi , Pope Gregory VIII calls on the secular rulers to recapture Jerusalem . The result is the Third Crusade .

Stone house in Seligenstadt

October 20th : Pope Urban III dies after a two-year pontificate . in Ferrara , allegedly out of dismay at the fall of Jerusalem. The very next day the Augustinian canon Alberto di Morra is elected Pope at the same place and takes the name Gregory VIII . He died of a fever on December 17th .

December 19 : Paolo Scolari , Bishop of Palestrina , is elected Pope in the second papal election of the year and takes the name Clement III. on.

February 23 : Peter of Portugal , Count of Urgell, Lord of Mallorca († 1258 )
April 13 : Arthur I , son of the Duke of Brittany, designated English heir to the throne († 1203 )

Birth of Prince Louis VIII, ( Grandes Chroniques de France , 14th or 15th century)

January 23 : Sobiesław I. , Samboride, Duke of East Pomerania (* around 1130 )
February 18 : Gilbert Foliot , Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London (* around 1110 )

May 1st : Roger de Moulins , Grand Master of the Order of St. John
July: Renaud de Châtillon , crusader, Prince of Antioch, Lord of Oultrejordain and Hebron (* around 1125 )

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