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| 1172 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1172 MCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1925 |
| Armenian calendar | 621 ԹՎ ՈԻԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5922 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1093–1094 |
| 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 (Metal Rabbit) 3869 or 3662 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3870 or 3663 |
| Coptic calendar | 888–889 |
| Discordian calendar | 2338 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1164–1165 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4932–4933 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1228–1229 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1093–1094 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4272–4273 |
| Holocene calendar | 11172 |
| Igbo calendar | 172–173 |
| Iranian calendar | 550–551 |
| Islamic calendar | 567–568 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōan 2 (承安２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1079–1080 |
| Julian calendar | 1172 MCLXXII |
| Korean calendar | 3505 |
| Minguo calendar | 740 before ROC 民前740年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −296 |
| Seleucid era | 1483/1484 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1714–1715 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1298 or 917 or 145 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1299 or 918 or 146 |
Year 1172 (MCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- February - Saladin conquers the fort of Shobik.
- April-May – Béla returns to Hungary, where he is acclaimed king.
- Richard Lionheart becomes Duke of Aquitaine (later King Richard I of England).
- Henry II of England and Humbert III, Count of Savoy agree to wed their respective heirs, John of England and Alicia. The alliance never occurs because Henry's elder heir, Henry the Young King, becomes 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 time, Alicia has 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 the Pope.
- A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades; this event marks the end of the pacification of the lands recently conquered by the Catalans.[2]
- According to the annals of the Worcester Priory, "nothing memorable" happens in this year.[3]
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)
Deaths
- March 4 – King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
- December 23 – Ugo Ventimiglia, Italian cardinal
- date unknown
- Il-Arslan, Khwarazm Shah
- Douce II, Countess of Provence (b. 1165)
- Acharya Hemachandra, Indian mathematician, philosopher and historian (b. 1089)
- William III, Count of Ponthieu (b. c. 1095)
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. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
- ^ 4 ANNALES MONASTICI (Henry Richards Luard ed., 1869) ("MCLXXII. Nihil memoriale.")