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This article is about the year 1162.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
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| 1162 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1162 MCLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1915 |
| Armenian calendar | 611 ԹՎ ՈԺԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5912 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -682–-681 |
| Bengali calendar | 569 |
| Berber calendar | 2112 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Hen. 2 – 9 Hen. 2 |
| 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 | 1218–1219 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1084–1085 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4263–4264 |
| Holocene calendar | 11162 |
| Iranian calendar | 540–541 |
| Islamic calendar | 557–558 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3495 |
| Minguo calendar | 750 before ROC 民前750年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1705 |
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Year 1162 (MCLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Africa
- The Almohad emir, Abd al-Mu'min, prepares a gigantic fleet of some four hundred ships to invade Spain. He dies the following year before the fleet is completed.[1]
[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] 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] Births
- October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi traveler and writer (d. 1231)
- Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese writer (d. 1241)
- 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)
[edit] References
- ^ Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, pp.77
