| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 1188 by topic | |
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| 1188 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1188 MCLXXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1941 |
| Armenian calendar | 637 ԹՎ ՈԼԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5938 |
| Bengali calendar | 595 |
| Berber calendar | 2138 |
| English Regnal year | 34 Hen. 2 – 35 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1732 |
| Burmese calendar | 550 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6696–6697 |
| Chinese calendar |
丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3884 or 3824 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3885 or 3825 |
| Coptic calendar | 904–905 |
| Discordian calendar | 2354 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1180–1181 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4948–4949 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1244–1245 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1109–1110 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4288–4289 |
| Holocene calendar | 11188 |
| Igbo calendar | 188–189 |
| Iranian calendar | 566–567 |
| Islamic calendar | 583–584 |
| Japanese calendar |
Bunji 4 (文治4年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1095–1096 |
| Julian calendar | 1188 MCLXXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3521 |
| Minguo calendar | 724 before ROC 民前724年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −280 |
| Seleucid era | 1499/1500 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1730–1731 |
Year 1188 (MCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.