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====Asia====

=====Japan=====
* Three-year-old [[Emperor Go-Toba]] ascends to the throne of [[Japan]], after the forced abdication of his brother [[Emperor Antoku]], during the [[Genpei War]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uyk_DwAAQBAJ&q=1183+Emperor+Go-Toba&pg=PA443|title=The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art|last1=Göttler|first1=Christine|last2=Mochizuki|first2=Mia|publisher=BRILL|year=2017|isbn=9789004354500|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=443|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c8rKCOSmKEMC&q=1183+Emperor+Go-Toba&pg=PA31|title=The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333)|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=1998|isbn=9780804763882|editor-last=Brown|editor-first=Delmer Myers|location=Berkeley, CA, Los Angeles & London|pages=31–32|language=en|orig-year=1979|editor-last2=Ishida|editor-first2=Ichirō}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brower|first=Robert H.|date=1972|title="Ex-Emperor Go-Toba's Secret Teachings": Go-Toba no in Gokuden|journal=Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies|volume=32|pages=5–70|doi=10.2307/2718867|issn=0073-0548|jstor=2718867}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Taira no Munemori]] and the [[Taira]] clan take the young [[Emperor Antoku]] and the [[Imperial Regalia of Japan|three sacred treasures]], and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the [[Minamoto]] clan (traditional [[Japanese calendar|Japanese date]]: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of [[Juei]]).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmYYAgAAQBAJ&q=1183+Emperor+Antoku&pg=PA96|title=Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945|last=Henshall|first=Kenneth|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2014|isbn=9780810878723|location=Lanham, MA, Toronto, Plymouth, UK|pages=96|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Akiyama|first=Akira|date=2018-12-11|title=Relic or Icon? The Place and Function of Imperial Regalia*|url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004354500/BP000028.xml|journal=The Nomadic Object|language=en|pages=430–447|doi=10.1163/9789004354500_016|isbn=9789004354500}}</ref>
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mizushima]]: The [[Taira]] Clan defeats the [[Minamoto]] Clan.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztYbDAAAQBAJ&q=1183+Battle+of+Mizushima&pg=PA44|title=Fighting Ships of the Far East|last=Turnbull|first=Stephen|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2012|isbn=9781782000433|volume=2: Japan and Korea AD 612–1639|location=Oxford and New York|pages=44|language=en|orig-year=2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOV7BAAAQBAJ&q=1183&pg=PP1|title=The Samurai Swordsman: Master of War|last=Turnbull|first=Stephen|publisher=Frontline Books|year=2008|isbn=9781473817937|location=Barnsley, UK|pages=28|language=en}}</ref>

=====Near East=====
* [[February]] &ndash; [[Raynald of Châtillon]] has at least five ships freighted over the [[Isthmus of Suez]], which he then uses to [[Crusader Red Sea raids|pillage the shores]] of the [[Red Sea]] around [[Jeddah]].
* [[William of Tyre]] is excommunicated by the newly appointed [[Patriarch Heraclius of Jerusalem|Heraclius of Jerusalem]], firmly ending their struggle for power.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44g6AAAAIAAJ&q=1183+William+of+Tyre&pg=PA76|title=William of Tyre: Historian of the Latin East|last1=Edbury|first1=Peter W.|last2=Rowe|first2=John Gordon|publisher=Cambridge University Press Archive|year=1991|isbn=9780521407281|location=Cambridge, New York|pages=20–21|language=en|orig-year=1988}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Mallett|first1=A.|last2=Thomas|first2=D.|date=2011|chapter=William Of Tyre|url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004216167/Bej.9789004195158.i-804_129.xml|title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200)|language=en|pages=769–777}}</ref>
* The [[Siege of Kerak]] is waged between the [[Ayyubids]] and the [[Crusaders]], in which [[regent]] [[Guy of Lusignan]] refuses to fight.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1P2_jGOzZNIC&q=1183+Siege+of+Kerak&pg=PR10|title=The Crusaders in the East: A Brief History of the Wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries|last=Stevenson|first=W. B.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2012|isbn=9781107669093|location=Cambridge, New York|pages=233–234|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ULDUopVCVPoC&q=1183+Siege+of+Kerak&pg=PA363|title=God's War: A New History of the Crusades|last=Tyerman|first=Christopher|author-link = Christopher Tyerman|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780674023871|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=363|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Saladin]] conquers [[Syria]] and becomes [[sultan]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-r9CAAAAYAAJ&q=1183+Saladin+sultan+Syria&pg=PA81|title=Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellers|last=Baedeker (Firm)|first=Karl|publisher=K. Baedeker|year=1876|location=London|pages=81|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&q=1183+Saladin++Syria&pg=PA438|title=Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set|last=Hamblin|first=William J.|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9781135456702|editor-last=Shillington|editor-first=Kevin|volume=I|location=New York, London|pages=438|language=en}}</ref>