1170
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 1170 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| 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 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1091–1092 |
| 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 (Earth Ox) 3867 or 3660 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3868 or 3661 |
| Coptic calendar | 886–887 |
| Discordian calendar | 2336 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1162–1163 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4930–4931 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1226–1227 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1091–1092 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4270–4271 |
| Holocene calendar | 11170 |
| Igbo calendar | 170–171 |
| Iranian calendar | 548–549 |
| Islamic calendar | 565–566 |
| Japanese calendar | Kaō 2 (嘉応２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1077–1078 |
| Julian calendar | 1170 MCLXX |
| Korean calendar | 3503 |
| Minguo calendar | 742 before ROC 民前742年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −298 |
| Seleucid era | 1481/1482 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1712–1713 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1296 or 915 or 143 — to — 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1297 or 916 or 144 |
Events
- Henry II of England wishes aloud that Thomas Becket be destroyed.
- 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.
Births
- 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)
- Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241)
- Leonardo of Pisa (Leonardo Fibonacci) (d. 1250)
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)
- Eudes, Viscount of Porhoet, co-ruler of the duchy of Brittany