1159

This article is about the year 1159.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1156 1157 1158 – 1159 – 1160 1161 1162

1159 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1159 in poetry

1159 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1159 MCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1912
Armenian calendar	608 ԹՎ ՈԸ
Assyrian calendar	5909
Bahá'í calendar	-685–-684
Bengali calendar	566
Berber calendar	2109
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 2 – 6 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1703
Burmese calendar	521
Byzantine calendar	6667–6668
Chinese calendar	戊寅年十二月初十日 (3795/3855-12-10) — to — 己卯年十一月二十日 (3796/3856-11-20)
Coptic calendar	875–876
Ethiopian calendar	1151–1152
Hebrew calendar	4919–4920
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1215–1216
- Shaka Samvat	1081–1082
- Kali Yuga	4260–4261
Holocene calendar	11159
Iranian calendar	537–538
Islamic calendar	553–554
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3492
Minguo calendar	753 before ROC 民前753年
Thai solar calendar	1702

Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• In the Roman Catholic Church, cardinals are given the right to elect the Pope. Prior to this, the pope was elected by the clergy and congregation of the church.
• September 7 – Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV as the 170th pope.
• The Heiji Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
• Tunis is reconquered from the Normans by the Almohad caliphs.

Births

• Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (d. 1189)

Deaths

• May 30 – Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
• September 1 – Pope Adrian IV (b. c. 1100)
• October 11 – William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)
• Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (b. 1110s)
• Joscelin II, Count of Edessa