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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades: 1130s 1140s 1150s – 1160s – 1170s 1180s 1190s
Years: 1159 1160 1161 – 1162 – 1163 1164 1165
1162 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1162 in poetry
MCLXII
Ab urbe condita 1915
Armenian calendar 611
ԹՎ ՈԺԱ
Bahá'í calendar -682 – -681
Bengali calendar 569
Berber calendar 2112
Buddhist calendar 1706
Burmese calendar 524
Byzantine calendar 6670 – 6671
Chinese calendar 辛巳年十二月十四日
(3798/3858-12-14)
— to —
壬午年十一月廿四日(3799/3859-11-24)
Coptic calendar 878 – 879
Ethiopian calendar 1154 – 1155
Hebrew calendar 4922 – 4923
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1217 – 1218
- Shaka Samvat 1084 – 1085
- Kali Yuga 4263 – 4264
Holocene calendar 11162
Iranian calendar 540 – 541
Islamic calendar 557 – 558
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar 3495
Thai solar calendar 1705
Events
Europe
- June 3 — Thomas Becket is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- July 15 — Ladislaus II of Hungary is declared King of Hungary.
- Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa seizes and destroys Milan, scattering its inhabitants among four villages.
Asia
- July 24 — Emperor Gaozong abdicates to Emperor Xiaozong.
- July 25 — Emperor Xiaozong announces he will posthumously rehabilitate Yue Fei.
- The Beisi Pagoda of Song Dynasty China is completed.
Births
- October 13 — Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
- Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveler and writer (d. 1231)
- Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (d. 1227)
- Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (d. 1206)
- Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician (d. 1183)
- Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (d. 1218)
Deaths
- February 10 — King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
- June 27 — Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
- July 7 — King Haakon II of Norway
- August 6 — Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c. 1113)
- Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (b. 1101)
- Iziaslav III of Kiev
- Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (b. 1090)