Saladin soon began to assert his independence from Nur ad-Din, and with the death of both Amalric and Nur ad-Din in 1174, he was well-placed to begin exerting control over Nur ad-Din's Syrian possessions as well.

According to Imad al-Din, Saladin had fathered five sons before he left Egypt in 1174.

Nur ad-Din also died in 1174, and his general Saladin spent the rest of the decade consolidating his hold on both Egypt and Nur ad-Din's possessions in Syria, which allowed him to completely encircle Jerusalem.

The origins of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt lie in the Ayyubid Dynasty that Saladin ( Salah ad-Din ) founded in 1174.

In 1174, Saladin proclaimed himself Sultan following the death of Nur al-Din.

While Saladin was in Syria, his brother al-Adil ruled Egypt, and in 1174 – 75, Kanz al-Dawla of Aswan revolted against the Ayyubids with the intention of restoring Fatimid rule.

Nur ad-Din was preparing to invade Egypt to bring Saladin under control when he unexpectedly died in 1174.

When the strongest Muslim ruler in Syria Nur ad-Din Zangi died in 1174, his successor Saladin was more concerned with Egypt and Palestine than the territory bordering the Empire.

In 1174 Usama was invited to Damascus to serve Saladin, who had succeeded Nur ad-Din earlier that year and was a friend of Usama's son Murhaf.

Sultan of Egypt was the status held by the rulers of Egypt after the establishment of the Ayyubid Dynasty of Saladin in 1174 until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517.

Recognizing the Abbasid Caliph as his theoretical superior, Saladin took the title of Sultan in 1174, though from this point until the Ottoman conquest, supreme power in the caliphate would come to rest with the Sultan of Egypt.

* 1174: Saladin annexes Syria.

He first achieved distinction as an officer in Nur ad-Din Zengi's army during his uncle Shirkuh's third and final campaign in Egypt ( 1168 – 1169 ); following Nur ad-Din's death in 1174, Al-Adil governed Egypt on behalf of his brother Saladin and mobilized that country's vast resources in support of his brother's campaigns in Syria and his war against the Crusaders ( 1175 – 1183 ).

In 1173, the northern wall of the mosque was damaged again by fire and was rebuilt by the Ayyubid sultan, Saladin ( r. 1174 – 1193 ), along with the Minaret of the Bride, which had been destroyed in the 1069 fire.

Shaizar was destroyed again by an earthquake in 1170 and the remnants were taken by Saladin in 1174.

When Henry's sons rebelled against him in 1173 Rhys sent his son Hywel Sais to Normandy to aid the king, then in 1174 personally led an army to Tutbury in Staffordshire to assist at the siege of the stronghold of the rebel Earl William de Ferrers.

In 1174, her father sent Frederick de la Roche, archbishop of Tyre, on a diplomatic legation to Europe to drum up support ( martial and financial ) for the Crusader states, and to arrange a suitable marriage for Sibylla.

In May 1174, Turan-Shah first conquered Zabid from a Kharijite dynasty and executed its leader Mahdi Abd al-Nabi and later that year Aden was taken from the Shia Banu Karam tribe.

The area was occupied by Saladin's brother, al-Malik al-Mu ' azzam Shams ad-Dawla Turanshah ( Turan-Shah ) from 1172 to 1174, but the Ayyubids withdrew a few years later.

The first reference to the name " IANA " in the RFC series is in RFC 1060, published in 1990 by Postel and Reynolds at USC-ISI, but the function, and the term, was well established long before that ; RFC 1174 says that " Throughout its entire history, the Internet system has employed a central Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA )...", and RFC 1060 lists a long series of earlier editions of itself, starting with RFC 349.

In 1174 the village was called Eya, meaning ' island ', though by 1192 it had gained its more modern name of Kingesie.

A document from 1174 mentions a lower market () not far from the port on the Senne river.

He also supported Henry's rebellious sons, and encouraged Plantagenet disunity by making Henry's sons, rather than Henry himself, the feudal overlords of the Angevin territories in France ; but the rivalry amongst Henry's sons and Louis's own indecisiveness broke up the coalition ( 1173 – 1174 ) between them.

" Four Generals of Zhongxing " by Southern Song Dynasty artist Liu Songnian ( 1174 – 1224 ); the renowned general Yue Fei ( 1103 – 1142 ) is the second person from the left.

Amalric I of Jerusalem ( also Amaury or Aimery ) ( 1136 – 11 July 1174 ) was King of Jerusalem 1163 – 1174, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession.

Nur ad-Din died in 1174, upon which Amalric immediately besieged Banias.

" Neither they nor Latin doctors could help, and he died on July 11, 1174.

After being expelled from Poitou by their overlord, Richard the Lion-hearted, for the murder of Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Amalric arrived in Palestine c. 1174, Guy possibly later.

His first wife, married before October 29, 1174, was Eschiva of Ibelin ( c. 1160 – Cyprus in Winter 1196 – 1197 ), daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin and first wife Richilde de Bethsan or Bessan.

It has been claimed that De Amore codifies the social and sexual life of Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174, though it was evidently written at least ten years later and, apparently, at Troyes.

After the 1174 fire in Canterbury Cathedral, Ælfheah's remains together with those of Dunstan were placed around the high altar, at which Thomas Becket is said to have commended his life into Ælfheah's care shortly before his martyrdom during the Becket controversy.

The earliest evidence of settlements in the area of today's Berlin are a wooden beam dated from approximately 1192 and leftovers of wooden houseparts dated to 1174 found in a 2012 digging in Berlin Mitte.

He was the first Cistercian placed on the calendar of saints, and was canonized by Pope Alexander III on 18 January 1174.

Low periods of the Nile during the 11th century continued to add to the landscape of Cairo ; a new island, known as Geziret al-Fil, first appeared in 1174, but eventually became connected to the mainland.

In March 1173, aggrieved at his lack of power and egged on by his father's enemies, the younger Henry launched the Revolt of 1173 – 1174.

On 8 July 1174, Henry and Eleanor took ship for England from Barfleur.

Saint Hedwig of Silesia (), also Saint Hedwig of Andechs (, ) ( 1174 – 15 October 1243 ) from the comital House of Andechs was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238.

* 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.

* 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173 – 1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.

Following the failed rebellion of his elder brothers between 1173 and 1174, however, John became Henry's favourite child.

In 1173 John's elder brothers, backed by Eleanor, rose in revolt against Henry in the short-lived rebellion of 1173 to 1174.

John's father, Henry II, had forced William of Scotland to swear fealty to him at the Treaty of Falaise in 1174.

Miles was assassinated in October, 1174, and Count Raymond III of Tripoli, Amalric's first cousin, became regent.

* Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Feudal Nobility and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1174 – 1277.