1170
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This article is about the year 1170.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1140s 1150s 1160s – 1170s – 1180s 1190s 1200s |
| Years: | 1168 1169 1170 – 1171 – 1172 1173 1174 |
| 1170 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1170 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1170 MCLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1923 |
| Armenian calendar | 619 ԹՎ ՈԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5920 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -674–-673 |
| Bengali calendar | 577 |
| Berber calendar | 2120 |
| English Regnal year | 16 Hen. 2 – 17 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1714 |
| Burmese calendar | 532 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6678–6679 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年十二月十三日 (3806/3866-12-13) — to —
庚寅年十一月廿二日(3807/3867-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 886–887 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1162–1163 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4930–4931 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1226–1227 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1092–1093 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4271–4272 |
| Holocene calendar | 11170 |
| Iranian calendar | 548–549 |
| Islamic calendar | 565–566 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3503 |
| Minguo calendar | 742 before ROC 民前742年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1713 |
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Year 1170 (MCLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- November – Henry II of England, when word reaches him in France of Thomas Becket's latest actions, utters words that are interpreted by his followers as a wish for the archbishop's death (alternative date is December).
- December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral.
- The city of Dublin is captured by the Normans.
- According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailes to North America and founds a colony.
- Estimation: Fes in the Almohad Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
- The Danes attack Estonia.
- The palace guards massacre the civil officials at the Korean court and place a new king on the throne. The coup leaders scrap the privileges that have kept the aristocrats in power and appoint themselves to top posts.
- Earliest dating for the making of Cheddar cheese
[edit] Births
- May 9 – Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241) (alternative date is June 28)
- Eustace the Monk, French pirate (d. 1217)
- Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of Philip II of France (d. 1190)
- Mukhali, general of Genghis Khan
- Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)
- Leonardo of Pisa (Leonardo Fibonacci) (d. 1250), mathematician
[edit] Deaths
- January 22 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (b. 1113)
- November 18 – Albert I of Brandenburg (b. c. 1100)
- November 28 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. c. 1100)
- December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. c. 1118)
- Al-Mustanjid, Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
- Ruben II of Armenia (b. 1160)
- Mstislav II of Kiev
- Eliezer ben Nathan, Jewish poet and writer (b. 1090)
- Odo, Viscount of Porhoet, co-ruler of the duchy of Brittany
