In 1185 John made his first visit to Ireland, accompanied by 300 knights and a team of administrators.

He was made cardinal and Archbishop of Milan by Pope Lucius III, whom he succeeded on 25 November 1185.

During the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ) and the following Muromachi period ( 1336 – 1573 ), Japanese architecture made technological advances that made it somewhat diverge from its Chinese counterpart.

In 1185, Béla made peace with the new emperor, Isaac II Angelos, who married Béla's daughter Margaret and received the territories on the Morava River as her dowry.

In 1177 he made John, his son, the first Lord of Ireland, though John was too young and landed in Ireland only in 1185.

The improved Compound, known as the Compound B67, was intended primarily to address the perceived performance limitations of the original model, and this was achieved by adding 4mm to the cylinder bores, thereby increasing engine capacity from 1185 cc to 1340cc Increasing the cylinder diameter made it practical at the same time to replace the side-valve lay-out with overhead valves.

This, together with a similar agreement made by Isaac II Angelos ( 1185 – 1195 and 1203 – 1204 ) with Venice the next year, in which the Republic would provide 40 – 100 galleys at six months ' notice in exchange for favorable trading concessions, is a telling indication that the Byzantine government was aware of the inadequacy of its own naval establishment.

His travel chronicle describes the pilgrimage he made to Mecca from 1183 to 1185, in the years preceding the Third Crusade.

Of her three sisters, Gertrude of Andechs-Merania ( 1185 – September 24, 1213 ) was the first wife of Andrew II of Hungary and the mother of St Elisabeth of Hungary ; Mechtilde became Abbess of Kitzingen ; while Agnes, a famous beauty, was made the unlawful wife of Philip Augustus of France in 1196, on the repudiation of his lawful wife, Ingeborg, but was dismissed in 1200, after Pope Innocent III laid France under an interdict.

Monzan independence lasted until 1185 when Barbarossa ended the conflict with the Lombard League with the peace of Constance, and had to leave the city of Milan to self-rule that the subjects again and takes possession of the Treasury of the Cathedral.

The ascension of Minamoto Yoritomo to the title of Shogun, following the Hōgen and Heiji rebellions, and the victory of the Minamoto clan over the Taira, marked the beginning of the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 A. D .), but not quite yet to a return to peace and tranquility.

His younger brother Isaac was threatened with execution under orders of their first-cousin once-removed Andronikos I Komnenos on September 11, 1185.

He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

However, as Andronikos ' rule went on, the Emperor became increasingly paranoid and violent – in September 1185, Andronikos ordered the execution of all prisoners, exiles and their families for collusion with the invaders – and the Byzantine Empire descended into a terror state.

* John Komnenos ( apparently born 1159 or 1160 ), who was co-emperor with his father from 1183 to 1185 and was killed in that year

Finally, Minamoto Yoritomo ( 1147 – 1199 ) rose from his headquarters at Kamakura ( in the Kantō region, southwest of modern Tokyo ) to defeat the Taira, and with them the child emperor Emperor Antoku they controlled, in the Genpei War ( 1180 – 1185 ).

Since the earliest samurai government in Japan, during the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ), sword fighting, together with horse riding and archery, were the main martial pursuits of the military clans.

In July 1185, the Treaty of Boves left the disputed territory partitioned, with Amiénois, Artois and numerous other places passing to the King and the remainder, with the county of Vermandois proper, being left provisionally to Philip of Alsace.

However, since then, Masʻūd had allied himself with the powerful governor of Azerbaijan and Jibal, who in 1185 began moving his troops across the Zagros Mountains, causing Saladin to hesitate in his attacks.

During the Nara and Heian periods ( 710 – 1185 ), people in Hokkaido conducted trade with Dewa Province, an outpost of the Japanese central government.

According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.

He was exiled from Germany in 1182 for three years, stayed with his father-in-law, in Normandy before being allowed back into Germany in 1185.

Isaac II Angelos strengthened his position as emperor with dynastic marriages in 1185 and 1186.

Isaac inaugurated his reign with a decisive victory over the Norman King of Sicily William II ( the Battle of Demetritzes, 7 November 1185 ), who had invaded the Balkans with 80, 000 men and 200 ships towards the end of Andronicus I's reign.

He was crowned co-King of Jerusalem with his uncle, Baldwin IV in 1183, and once his uncle died, became the nominal king from 1185 to 1186, under the regency of Count Raymond III of Tripoli.

* 1185: Taira is defeated ( Gempei War ) and Minamoto Yoritomo with the support ( backing ) of the Hōjō clan seizes power, becoming the first shogun of Japan, while the emperor ( or " mikado ") becomes a figurehead

A or rounin was a Bushi with no lord or master during the feudal period ( 1185 – 1868 ) of Japan.

This led to the Genpei War, ending with the decisive Taira defeat at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185.

During the sea battle of Dan-no-ura in April 1185, a member of the royal household took Antoku and plunged with him into the water in the Shimonoseki Straits, drowning the child emperor rather than allowing him to be captured by the opposing forces.

The technique has been around since about 1185 when the Taira clan were exiled here from their native Kyoto by Minamoto no Yoritomo, taking with them craftsmen and chefs from Kyoto.

However his most famous work is Historia brevis regum Dacie, entitled Compendiosa regum Daniæ historia in one manuscript, thought to have been finished in 1186 or 1187 ( the last event is described in 1185 ), a work covering Danish history beginning with the legendary King Skjold from around 300 to 1185.

Andronikos I Komnenos ( or Andronicus I Comnenus, ; c. 1118 – September 12, 1185 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1183 to 1185 ).

* 1185 – Emperor Antoku, Japanese emperor ( b. 1178 )

* 1178 – Emperor Antoku of Japan ( d. 1185 )

* Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor ( d. 1185 )

* December 22 – Emperor Antoku of Japan ( d. 1185 )

In pursuance of his anti-imperial policy, Lucius declined in 1185 to crown Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI as Frederick I's destined successor, and the breach between the Empire and the Curia became wider on questions of Italian politics.

In 1185 his forces, commanded by his younger brother Minamoto no Yoshitsune, vanquished the Taira and in 1192 he received from Emperor Go-Toba the title of Seii Tai Shogun.

Isaac II Angelos ( or Angelus ) ( Greek: Ισαάκιος Β ’ Άγγελος, Isaakios II Angelos ) ( September 1156 – January 1204 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and again from 1203 to 1204.

Emperor Antoku ( 安徳天皇 Antoku-tennō ) ( December 22, 1178 – April 25, 1185 ) was the 81st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

This prosperity was shattered when Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa invaded the Italian peninsula in 1185.

Shinran ( 1173 – 1263 ) lived during the late-Heian early-Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ), a time of turmoil for Japan when the Emperor was stripped of political power by the Shoguns.

In that year Emperor Ivan Vladislav was killed in a battle at Dyrrhachium, and Bulgaria became a province of the Byzantine Empire until the successful uprising led by the Asen brothers in 1185.

Finally his aunt Theodora Komnene, who had an affair with the new Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos ( 1183 – 1185 ) convinced the Emperor to contribute to his ransom, as did his stepfather Constantine Makrodoukas and Andronikos Doukas, another relative and a childhood friend, a sodomite and debaucher, as Niketas tells us.

In 1185 Isaac II Angelos became Emperor after a popular uprising at Constantinople.

Bogislaw I took his duchy as a fief from the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I ( Barbarossa ) in 1181, and from the Danish king Canute VI in 1185.

Reportedly Herina, the first wife of Emperor Isaac II Angelos who reigned from 1185 to 1195, was of the Palaiologos family.

* Peter IV of Bulgaria or Peter II, Emperor of Bulgaria 1185 – 1197

One of the most important extant texts in Jurchen is the inscription on the back of " the Jin Victory Memorial Stele " ( Da Jin deshengtuo songbei ), which was erected in 1185, during the reign of Emperor Shizong.

In 1185, the brothers Theodore ( Todor ) and Ivan Asen appeared before the Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos at Kypsela to request a pronoia.