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The year 1182 is a common year starting on a Friday.

Events

11 May - 22 June: Saladin leaves Cairo for Damascus. It crosses the kingdom of Jerusalem and ravages the cultures of the lands of Renaud de Châtillon without meeting the Franco army.

20 July: Saladin arrives near Tiberias; He combines his action with raids on Baisan, Jenin and Acre. After an undecided commitment to the battle of Belvoir, Saladin attempted to cut off the kingdom of Jerusalem from Tripoli County by seizing Beirut with the help of his fleet, combined with an attack on the border between the Frankish kingdom and Egypt. Baudouin IV of Jerusalem manages to repel the attack on Beirut.
October: Raymond III of Tripoli and King Baudouin attack the vicinity of Damascus.
During the winter, Renaud de Châtillon decided to launch a raid on Mecca. He sailed to Eilat, a small fishing port on the Gulf of Aqaba, then attacked Yanboh, the port of Medina, and then to Rabigh, not far from Mecca. On the way, a boat of Muslim pilgrims was sinking to Jeddah. While Renaud, loaded with loot, ascends to his land, his men continue to travel the Red Sea. Saladin's brother, al-Adel, who ruled in Egypt, launched a fleet against them that crushed the looters. Some of them are taken to Mecca for beheaded in public ().

In India, Ghuride General Muhammad ibn Sam takes Debal and makes Sumra (Ismailians) his vassals.
The sultan saljûqide of Rum Kılıç Arslan II takes Sozopolis, Attaleia and waste Cotyaeum.
Secession from Cyprus after the takeover of Andy Comnène. Isaac Comnène seized the island government with false letters. In 1184 he declared himself an independent sovereign.

Europe
February 3: Florence conquers Empoli.
March 10: Philippe Auguste of France expels Jews from the royal domain and confiscates their property; he reminds them in .

April-May, Byzantine Empire: de facto usurpation of Manuel Comnène's cousin, Andronic Comnène after his victory at the Battle of Nicomedia. In May, he pushed Alexis II Comnène to the massacre of the Latins of Constantinople. Eustathe of Thessaloniki estimates the Latin colony of Constantinople to people (Pisan or Genoese, Venice being absent since 1171). Andronic is forced to use the services of Venice, which alone did not suffer from the massacre, and grants him important commercial privileges. Genoa and Pisa avenged themselves by launching their pirates in the Aegean Sea.

12 May: The reign of Knut VI, king of Denmark (end 1202).
16 May: Coronation of Alexis II Comnène.
May 19: Consecration of the choir of Notre-Dame de Paris. Construction of the nave began (end in 1200).

August 27: The murder of Marie d'Antioche.

September: Andronic Comnène enters Constantinople
29 September: Moravia is temporarily erected as a margraviat independent of Bohemia by Emperor Frédéric Barberousse. Conrad O