1162
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| 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 | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1162 MCLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1915 |
| Armenian calendar | 611 ԹՎ ՈԺԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -682 – -681 |
| 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 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
