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This article is about the year 1169.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1130s 1140s 1150s – 1160s – 1170s 1180s 1190s |
| Years: | 1166 1167 1168 – 1169 – 1170 1171 1172 |
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| 1169 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1169 MCLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1922 |
| Armenian calendar | 618 ԹՎ ՈԺԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5919 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -675–-674 |
| Bengali calendar | 576 |
| Berber calendar | 2119 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Hen. 2 – 16 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1713 |
| Burmese calendar | 531 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6677–6678 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年十二月初二日 (3805/3865-12-2) — to —
己丑年十二月十二日(3806/3866-12-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 885–886 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1161–1162 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4929–4930 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1225–1226 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1091–1092 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4270–4271 |
| Holocene calendar | 11169 |
| Iranian calendar | 547–548 |
| Islamic calendar | 564–565 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3502 |
| Minguo calendar | 743 before ROC 民前743年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1712 |
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Year 1169 (MCLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
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[edit] Africa
- Nur ad-Din Zangi invades Egypt, and names his nephew Saladin sultan as well as vizier of Cairo.
[edit] Europe
- January – Henry II of England & Louis VII of France sign a peace treaty which includes the betrothal of their respective heirs, twelve year-old Richard I of England & nine year-old Alys, Countess of the Vexin.[1]
- Siege of Badajoz by Gerald the Fearless. The adventurer receives the support of the Afonso I of Portugal. The Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, manages to broke an alliance with the king of León Ferdinand II against Afonso. The allies manage to besiege the Portuguese in Badajoz and finally to take both the king and Gerald prisoners.[2]
- During the Swedish power struggle, Boleslaw is killed, but his brother Kol continues as king of Östergötland until 1173, in opposition to king Knut Eriksson of Sweden.
- Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks Kiev and makes Vladimir the capital of Kievan Rus'
- Cambro-Norman Knight, and vassal of Henry II of England, Richard fitzGilbert de Clare makes an alliance with exiled Irish chief Dermot MacMurrough, to help him regain the throne of Leinster. This begins a period during which Irish politics are dominated by lords based in England.
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[edit] Arts
- Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her own court in Poitiers. It will become known as a center of courtly love.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 – Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)
- July 9 – Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian
- Stephen du Perche, chancellor of Sicily and archbishop of Palermo
- Boleslaw Sverkerson, king of Östergötland (Sweden) since 1167
[edit] References
- ^ King John by Warren. University of California Press, 1961. p. 37
- ^ Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman (VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
