1172
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This article is about the year 1172.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1140s 1150s 1160s – 1170s – 1180s 1190s 1200s |
| Years: | 1169 1170 1171 – 1172 – 1173 1174 1175 |
| 1172 by topic | |
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| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
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| 1172 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1172 MCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1925 |
| Armenian calendar | 621 ԹՎ ՈԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5922 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -672–-671 |
| Bengali calendar | 579 |
| Berber calendar | 2122 |
| English Regnal year | 18 Hen. 2 – 19 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1716 |
| Burmese calendar | 534 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6680–6681 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年十二月初四日 (3808/3868-12-4) — to —
壬辰年十二月十五日(3809/3869-12-15) |
| Coptic calendar | 888–889 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1164–1165 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4932–4933 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1228–1229 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1094–1095 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4273–4274 |
| Holocene calendar | 11172 |
| Iranian calendar | 550–551 |
| Islamic calendar | 567–568 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3505 |
| Minguo calendar | 740 before ROC 民前740年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1715 |
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Year 1172 (MCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- Duke Richard of Aquitaine becomes Duke of Poitiers (later King Richard I of England).
- Henry II of England & Humbert III, Count of Savoy agree to wed their respective heirs, John of England & Alicia. The alliance will never happen because Henry's elder heir, Henry the Young King, gets jealous over the castles which the elder Henry promises to the couple and stages a rebellion which will take the elder Henry two years to put down. By that point, Alicia will have died.[1]
- Alberto di Morra is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches, where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket.
- The Synod of Cashel ends the Celtic Christian system and brings them under Rome.
- A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades, this event marks the end of the pacification of the lands recently conquered by the Catalans.[2]
[edit] Births
- July – Baldwin I of Constantinople (d. 1205)
- date unknown
- Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester (d. 1232)
- Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke (d. 1220)
- Louis I, Count of Blois (d. 1205)
- Fujiwara Moroie, last of the Japanese Fujiwara Regents (d. 1238)
- probable
- Isabella of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem 1190/1192–1205 (d. 1205)
[edit] Deaths
- March – Il-Arslan, Khwarazm Shah
- March 4 – King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
- June 20 – William III, Count of Ponthieu (b. c. 1095)
- December 23 – Ugo Ventimiglia, cardinal
- date unknown
- Douce II, Countess of Provence (b. 1165)
- Acharya Hemachandra, Indian mathematician, philosopher and historian (b. 1089)
[edit] References
- ^ King John by Warren. Published by the University of California Press in 1961. p. 29
- ^ McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History 7 (1): 67–82. http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.library.uu.nl/science/article/pii/0304418181900361.
