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Gregorian calendar | 1166 MCLXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 1919 |
Armenian calendar | 615 ԹՎ ՈԺԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 5916 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1087–1088 |
Bengali calendar | 573 |
Berber calendar | 2116 |
English Regnal year | 12 Hen. 2 – 13 Hen. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 1710 |
Burmese calendar | 528 |
Byzantine calendar | 6674–6675 |
Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3863 or 3656 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3864 or 3657 |
Coptic calendar | 882–883 |
Discordian calendar | 2332 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1158–1159 |
Hebrew calendar | 4926–4927 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1222–1223 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1087–1088 |
- Kali Yuga | 4266–4267 |
Holocene calendar | 11166 |
Igbo calendar | 166–167 |
Iranian calendar | 544–545 |
Islamic calendar | 561–562 |
Japanese calendar | Eiman 2 / Nin'an 1 (仁安元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1073–1074 |
Julian calendar | 1166 MCLXVI |
Korean calendar | 3499 |
Minguo calendar | 746 before ROC 民前746年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −302 |
Seleucid era | 1477/1478 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1708–1709 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1292 or 911 or 139 — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1293 or 912 or 140 |
Year 1166 (MCLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- July – Henry II of England conquers Brittany, granting the territory to his son Geoffrey.[1]
- July 5 – First mention of the town of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria (in an ecclesiastical document).
- Henry II of England enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming the English law and defining the legal duties of sheriffs.[2]
- Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as Patriarch of Alexandria.
- Tribhuvanāditya comes to power in the Khmer empire following the assassination of Yasovarman II.
- Stefan Nemanja becomes Grand Župan of the Grand Principality of Serbia.
- Henry the Lion has the first bronze statue (a heraldic lion) north of the Alps erected at Dankwarderode Castle.
- William Marshal, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted.
Births
- July 29 – Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
- December 24 – John of England (d. 1216)
- Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)
- Prithviraj Chauhan of India (d. 1192)
- William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)
Deaths
- May 7 – William I of Sicily
- Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend; per legend b. 1130)
- Abdul-Qadir Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyyah Sufi Tariqah (b. 1077)
References
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 67–69. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 125–126. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.