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Year 1178 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1178th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 178th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 12th century, and the 9th year of the 1170s decade.
Vocabulary. On June 18, 1178, five monks in Canterbury, England, believed they witnessed the formation of a crater on the Moon. The crater, marked by a bright ray system, is today known as the Giordano Bruno crater. The monks reported an impact in which “the upper horn [of the moon] split in two” and a “flaming torch sprang up, spewing ...
- Prologue
- Commanders & Armies
- Battle - The Horns of Hattin
- Aftermath
The Crusader states of the Levant had been created shortly after the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE), and they were the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the County of Edessa, the County of Tripoli, and the Principality of Antioch. The first, with its capital at Jerusalem, was the most important, and although they controlled many fine cities and castles and grew ...
Saladin's army was composed of his own elite bodyguards (the Mamluks, who were mostly of Turkish-Kurdish origin and trained since boys), mercenaries (typically mounted archers), those troops conscripted from Ayyubid lands, and even some volunteers eager for adventure and a religious war. Over several months the army was mustered at a point south of...
On 3 July 1187 CE Saladin attacked the moving Frankish army as it marched from its base at Sapphorie towards Tiberias, which was then under siege from Saladin's army - perhaps in a deliberate attempt to coax the Franks into mobilising. The wife of Raymond of Tripoli was stuck in the besieged citadel of Tiberias, and this may have been the deciding ...
Saladin followed up his victory by taking control of such cities as Acre, Tiberias, Caesarea, Nazareth, Jaffa and even, the holiest of holies itself, Jerusalem on 2 October 1187 CE. Saladin accepted ransoms from those Latin Christians who could afford to buy their freedom and enslaved the rest (causing a near-crash in the Middle East's slave market...
- Mark Cartwright
Beginning. Events. 1178. was a common year. Events. June 18 – Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. The Sung Document written detailing the discovery of "Mu-Lan-Pi" (suggested by some to be California) by Muslim sailors. The Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury written.
阳土马年. (male Earth- Horse) 245 or −136 or −908. Year 118 ( CXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Hadrianus and Fuscus (or, less frequently, year 871 Ab urbe condita ).
May 6, 2023 · On June 18, 1178, a group of 5 monks from Canterbury, England observed something that blew their minds. They believed they had witnessed the moon splitting in two. They recorded their description of the event in a manuscript called the Gesta Stephani, written by the monk Gervase of Canterbury.
