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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1130s 1140s 1150s – 1160s – 1170s 1180s 1190s |
| Years: | 1166 1167 1168 – 1169 – 1170 1171 1172 |
| 1169 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1169 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1169 MCLXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1922 |
| Armenian calendar | 618 ԹՎ ՈԺԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -675 – -674 |
| Bengali calendar | 576 |
| Berber calendar | 2119 |
| 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 | 1224 – 1225 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1091 – 1092 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4270 – 4271 |
| Holocene calendar | 11169 |
| Iranian calendar | 547 – 548 |
| Islamic calendar | 564 – 565 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3502 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1712 |
[edit] Events
- Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din, as well as vizier of Cairo.
- Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev and makes Vladimir the capital.
- The conquest of Ireland begins. Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her great court in Poitiers, where the Courts of Love flourish.
[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
