WHAT HAPPENED IN 1186

Year 1186 (MCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 27 – Constance of Sicily marries Henry (the future Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor).
• John the Chanter becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• The Byzantine Empire recognizes the independence of Bulgaria and Serbia.
• Joscius becomes Archbishop of Tyre.
• Jayavarman VII, the king of Cambodia, founds the temple of Ta Prohm.
• After the death of the child-king Baldwin V, his mother succeeds him as Sibylla of Jerusalem and appoints her disfavoured husband Guy de Lusignan king consort. This comes as a shock to Jerusalem's court, who had earlier forced the possible future Queen into promising that should she become so, she would not appoint him the title.
• Births

• May 18 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
• Queen Urraca of Portugal, wife of King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1220)
• Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk (d. 1225)
• Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich, Grand Prince of Kiev
• Ögedei Khan, third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1241)
• Song Ci, Chinese physician and judge (d. 1249)
  

Deaths

• January 26 – Ismat ad-Din Khatun, wife of Saladin
• May 29 or June 23 or June 24 – Robert of Torigni
• June 1 – Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord
• August 19 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
• August – Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. 1177)
• September 29 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130)