* 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.

* 1176: On May 29, Frederick Barbarossa's forces were defeated in the Battle of Legnano by the Lombard League which resulted in the emperor's acknowledgement of the pope's sovereignty over the Papal States and Alexander acknowledging the emperor's overlordship of the imperial Church.

In Italy the breakaway from their feudal overlords occurred in the late 12th century and 13th century, during the Investiture Controversy between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor: Milan led the Lombard cities against the Holy Roman Emperors and defeated them, gaining independence ( battles of Legnano, 1176, and Parma, 1248 ; see Lombard League ).

The Lombard League defeated Frederick at the Battle of Legnano in 1176.

The breakaway from their feudal overlords by these communes occurred in the late 12th century and 13th century, during the Investiture Controversy between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor: Milan led the Lombard cities against the Holy Roman Emperors and defeated them, gaining independence ( battles of Legnano, 1176, and Parma, 1248-see Lombard League ).

The Battle of Legnano was fought on May 29, 1176, between the forces of the Holy Roman Empire, led by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, and the Lombard League.

In the Middle Ages, Legnano was the location of the battle in which Emperor Frederick I was defeated by the Lombard League ( 1176 ).

A part of the powerful Contado of the Seprio, in 1176 its citizens are likely to have taken part ( on both sides ) to the famous Battle of Legnano, actually fought between Busto's frazione of Borsano and nearby Villa Cortese, when Frederick Barbarossa was defeated by the Communal militia of the Lombard League.

The story passed around after the Fourth Crusade ( which is the version told by modern Venetians and accepted by many historians ) was that he had been blinded by the Byzantines during his 1171 embassy, although it is possible that he suffered from cortical blindness as a result of a severe blow to the back of the head received sometime between 1174 and 1176.

The manor was granted to Cirencester Abbey, founded by Henry I in 1117, and following half a century of building work during which the minster church was demolished, the great abbey church was finally dedicated in 1176.

The Birkebeiner took the city of Trondheim and proclaimed Eystein to be king at the Øretinget Thing by the mouth of the river Nidelva in during 1176.

The Birkebeiner were formed in 1174 around Øystein Møyla, who was proclaimed to be king at the Øretinget Thing by the mouth of the river Nidelva in Trondheim during 1176.

In 1176, Norway was slowly recovering from decades of multiple civil wars.

However, the dispute between Alexander III, Antipope Victor IV and his successors Antipope Paschal III and Antipope Calixtus III ( who had the German imperial support ) continued until Frederick Barbarossa's defeat at the Legnano in 1176, after which Barbarossa finally ( in the Peace of Venice of 1177 ) recognized Alexander III as pope.

The Battle of Hama did not end the contest for power between the Ayyubids and the Zengids, with the final confrontation occurring in the spring of 1176.

* 1176: On September 17, The Battle of Myriokephalon ( Myriocephalum ; Turkish: Miryakefalon Savaşı ) is fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks in Phrygia.

If the former, the two of them could not have spent more than about a quarter of the time between 1166 and 1176 together ( as historian Marion Meade puts it: " For all her subsequent fame, Rosamund must be one of the most neglected concubines in history ").

Four of these are complete ; Erec and Enide ( c. 1170 ); Cligès ( c. 1176 ), and Yvain, the Knight of the Lion and Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, both written simultaneously between 1177 and 1181.

In the spring of 1176, another major confrontation occurred between the Zengids and the Ayyubids, this time at the Sultan's Mound, from Aleppo.

The Battle of Myriokephalon, also known as the, or in Turkish, was a battle between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks in Phrygia on September 17, 1176.

Pisidia constantly changed hands between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Turks until 1176, when the Great Sultan Kılıçarslan defeated Manuel Commenos in the Myriokephalon ( thousand heads ), which ended Roman rule and cemented Turkish rule of the area.

The interim protocol was quickly replaced by the Interactive Mail Access Protocol ( IMAP2 ), defined in RFC 1064 ( in 1988 ) and later updated by RFC 1176 ( in 1990 ).

It was written specifically as a counter proposal to RFC 1176, which itself proposed modifications to IMAP2.

To balance this, the king turned from time to time to his uncle, Joscelin III of Edessa, who was appointed seneschal in 1176 ; Joscelin was more closely related to Baldwin than Raymond was, but had no claim to the throne himself.

Jerusalem looked again towards the Byzantine Empire for help, and Emperor Manuel was looking for a way to restore his empire's prestige after his defeat at the Battle of Myriokephalon in 1176 ; this mission was undertaken by Raynald of Châtillon.

After William of Montferrat arrived in 1176, he fell ill and died in June 1177, leaving Sibylla widowed and pregnant with the future Baldwin V. Raynald was then named regent.

Ar-Raqqah was an important crossing point and held by Qutb al-Din Inal, who had lost Manbij to Saladin in 1176.

Mas ' ud was born in 1175 and Yaq ' ub in 1176, the latter to Shamsa.

Year 1176 ( MCLXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Frederick suffered a heavy defeat at the Battle of Legnano near Milan, on 29 May 1176, where he was wounded and for some time was believed to be dead.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marinianus and Asclepiodotus ( or, less frequently, year 1176 Ab urbe condita ).

The History of Jin 《 金史 》 ( compiled by 1345 ) states that in 1232, as the Mongol general Subutai ( 1176 – 1248 ) descended on the Jin stronghold of Kaifeng, the defenders had a " thunder-crash bomb " which " consisted of gunpowder put into an iron container ... then when the fuse was lit ( and the projectile shot off ) there was a great explosion the noise whereof was like thunder, audible for more than a hundred li, and the vegetation was scorched and blasted by the heat over an area of more than half a mou.

Teruel was founded in 1176 by Sancho Sánchez Muñoz and Blasco Garcés Marcilla.

Deriving from earlier varieties of gnosticism, Cathar theology found its most surprising success in the Languedoc and the Cathars were known as Albigensians, either because of an association with the city of Albi, or because the 1176 Church Council which declared the Cathar doctrine heretical was held near Albi.

Rosamund Clifford ( before 1150 – c. 1176 ), often called " The Fair Rosamund " or the " Rose of the World ", was famed for her beauty and was a mistress of King Henry II of England, famous in English folklore.

Raymond III of Tripoli, first cousin of their father Amalric I of Jerusalem, had been bailli or regent for Baldwin IV while the latter was a child, but once the king came of age in 1176 his power began to recede.

In 1176 he was made bishop of Chartres, where he passed the remainder of his life.

The village is the site of Croxden Abbey, founded in 1176 by the Cistercians, but now ruined.

In 1176, Cardigan Castle became the site of the first competitive Eisteddfod.

It was established sometime after the death of Thomas Becket ( 1170 ), possibly as early as 1176, when Canterbury Cathedral became a site of pilgrimage ; the hospital provided accommodation for the pilgrims.

In this role it took part in the war against the emperor Frederick Barbarossa and in the subsequent battle of Legnano ( 1176 ).

In fact infantry had been victorious in earlier times in similar situations, for instance at the battle of Legnano in 1176, but in open ground infantry still had the worst, as shown for instance at the battle of Patay and the battle of Formigny in which the vaunted English longbowmen were easily run down ; however, the experience of battles like Courtrai and Bannockburn meant that the myth of the invincible knight disappeared, which was in itself important for transforming medieval warfare.