1165

Year 1165 (MCLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1165 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1165
MCLXV
Ab urbe condita1918
Armenian calendar614
ԹՎ ՈԺԴ
Assyrian calendar5915
Balinese saka calendar1086–1087
Bengali calendar572
Berber calendar2115
English Regnal year11 Hen. 2  12 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1709
Burmese calendar527
Byzantine calendar6673–6674
Chinese calendar甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
3861 or 3801
     to 
乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3862 or 3802
Coptic calendar881–882
Discordian calendar2331
Ethiopian calendar1157–1158
Hebrew calendar4925–4926
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1221–1222
 - Shaka Samvat1086–1087
 - Kali Yuga4265–4266
Holocene calendar11165
Igbo calendar165–166
Iranian calendar543–544
Islamic calendar560–561
Japanese calendarChōkan 3 / Eiman 1
(永万元年)
Javanese calendar1072–1073
Julian calendar1165
MCLXV
Korean calendar3498
Minguo calendar747 before ROC
民前747年
Nanakshahi calendar−303
Seleucid era1476/1477 AG
Thai solar calendar1707–1708
Tibetan calendar阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
1291 or 910 or 138
     to 
阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
1292 or 911 or 139
William I (the Lion) (c. 1142–1214)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Spring Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) makes an alliance with Venice against Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa), who takes an oath at the Diet of Würzburg to support Antipope Paschal III against Pope Alexander III.
  • Andronikos Komnenos, a cousin of Manuel I, escapes from prison at Constantinople. After passing through many dangers, he reaches Kiev and seeks refuge at the court of Prince Yaroslav Osmomysl.

Europe

  • Gerald the Fearless, Portuguese warrior and adventurer, seizes the city Évora by surprise. The same year (or soon after), he takes Cáceres, Trujillo, Montánchez, Moura, Monsaraz and Alconchel from the Almohads.
  • October 15 Battle of Fahs al-Jullab: Almoravid forces defeat Ibn Mardanish, ruler of the Taifa of Murcia. His army is routed at a place called the "merchant field" near Alhama, in the valley of the Guadalentín.[1]
  • Benjamin of Tudela, Spanish Jewish traveler, sets out on his journey from the northeast Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain), in what begins as a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.[2]
  • Otto II (the Rich), margrave of Meissen, grants Leipzig city and market privileges. The city is located at the crossways of the Via Regia and Via Imperii trade routes.

England

  • King Owain ap Gruffydd (the Great) of Gwynedd forms an alliance with his nephew Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of Deheubarth, to challenge English rule. They drive the English forces out of Wales.
  • Battle of Crogen: King Henry II invades Wales, but is defeated and forced to retreat. After Welsh forces under Owain ap Gruffydd inflict an unknown number of casualties on the English army.
  • Henry II's marriage with Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine is effectively ended when she moves back to Aquitaine. Henry begins an affair with Rosamund Clifford.
  • December 9 King Malcolm IV dies at Jedburgh after a 12-year reign and is succeeded by his brother William I (the Lion) as ruler of Scotland (until 1214).

Asia

  • September 5 Emperor Nijō abdicates the throne and dies after a 7-year reign. He is succeeded by his 1-year-old son Rokujō as the 79th emperor of Japan.
  • In China the Jin Dynasty (Great Jin) and the Song Dynasty make a lasting peace (until 1205).

Religion

  • Eskil, Danish archbishop of Lund, appoints Fulco as the first Bishop of Estonia, marking the early beginning of the introduction of Christianity to the country. He will visit Estonia for the first time in 1169 or 1170.
  • Hildegard of Bingen, German Benedictine abbess, founds Eibingen Abbey on the opposite bank of the Rhine near Rüdesheim (approximate date).
  • The construction of Liuhe Pagoda (Six Harmonies Pagoda) in Hangzhou, China, is completed during the Song Dynasty.

Births

  • August 21 Philip II, king of France (d. 1223)
  • Albéric Clément, Marshal of France (d. 1191)
  • Albert of Buxhoeven, bishop of Riga (d. 1229)
  • Blacas III, French knight and troubadour (d. 1237)
  • Conrad III, German cleric and bishop (d. 1224)
  • Han (or Gongshu), Chinese empress (d. 1200)
  • Henry I (the Brave), duke of Brabant (d. 1235)
  • Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1197)
  • Henry the Bearded, High Duke of Poland (d. 1238)
  • Hermann von Salza, German nobleman (d. 1239)
  • Ibn Arabi, Andalusian philosopher (d. 1240)[3]
  • Jean Bodel, French poet and writer (d. 1210)
  • Jean de Montmirail, French nobleman (d. 1217)
  • Joan of England, queen of Sicily (d. 1199)
  • Phillipe de Plessis, French Grand Master (d. 1209)
  • Renaud I (or Reginald), French nobleman (d. 1227)
  • Ruben II (or Roupen), Armenian prince (d. 1170)
  • Shizuka Gozen, Japanese court dancer (d. 1211)
  • Theobald Walter, Norman High Sheriff (d. 1206)
  • Waleran III (or Walram), duke of Limburg (d. 1226)
  • William the Breton, French chronicler (d. 1225)

Deaths

References

  1. Vallvé Bermejo, Joaquín (1972). "La división territorial en la España musulmana (II): la cora de "Tudmīr" (Murcia)". Al-Andalus, p. 171.
  2. Shatzmiller, Joseph (1998). "Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and his Contemporaries", p. 338. ISBN 978-0-8020-0779-7.
  3. "The Meccan Revelations". World Digital Library. April 6, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
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