1166

1166 (MCLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1166 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1166
MCLXVI
Ab urbe condita1919
Armenian calendar615
ԹՎ ՈԺԵ
Assyrian calendar5916
Balinese saka calendar1087–1088
Bengali calendar573
Berber calendar2116
English Regnal year12 Hen. 2  13 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1710
Burmese calendar528
Byzantine calendar6674–6675
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3862 or 3802
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3863 or 3803
Coptic calendar882–883
Discordian calendar2332
Ethiopian calendar1158–1159
Hebrew calendar4926–4927
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1222–1223
 - Shaka Samvat1087–1088
 - Kali Yuga4266–4267
Holocene calendar11166
Igbo calendar166–167
Iranian calendar544–545
Islamic calendar561–562
Japanese calendarEiman 2 / Nin'an 1
(仁安元年)
Javanese calendar1073–1074
Julian calendar1166
MCLXVI
Korean calendar3499
Minguo calendar746 before ROC
民前746年
Nanakshahi calendar−302
Seleucid era1477/1478 AG
Thai solar calendar1708–1709
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
King William II (the Good) offering the Monreale Cathedral to the Virgin Mary.

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) asks Venice to help pay the costs of defending Sicily, whose Norman rulers have had good relations with Venice. Doge Vitale II Michiel refuses to pay the requested subsidy. Manuel begins to cultivate relationships with the main commercial rivals of Venice: Genoa and Pisa. He grants them their own trade quarters in Constantinople, very near the Venetian settlements.

Europe

  • May 7 King William I (the Wicked) of Sicily dies at Palermo after a 12-year reign. He is succeeded by his 12-year-old son William II (the Good), whose mother, Margaret of Navarre, will be regent until he comes of age.
  • Battle of Pantina: The Byzantines intervene on behalf of Grand Prince Tihomir of Serbia against his rebellious brother, Prince Stefan Nemanja, who defeats the Byzantine forces and becomes Grand Župan of Serbia.
  • Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, has the Brunswick Lion created at Dankwarderode Castle in Braunschweig (modern Germany). Mentioned by Albert of Stade, a German abbot and chronicler, as the year of origin.
  • July 5 The town of Bad Kleinkirchheim (modern Austria) is first mentioned, in an ecclesiastical document, in which Archbishop Conrad II of Salzburg confirms the donation of a chapel, nearby Millstatt Abbey.
  • Autumn Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) begins his fourth Italian campaign, hoping to secure the claim of Antipope Paschal III in Rome and the coronation of his wife Beatrice I as Holy Roman Empress.
  • Mieszko III (the Old) proclaims a Prussian crusade against the pagans and pressures the collaboration of Frederick I. He leaves Greater Poland in the hands of his younger brother Casimir II (the Just).

England

  • Diarmaid mac Murchadha is exiled and goes to Normandy, and the court of King Henry II to ask for assistance in retaking his kingdom. Henry gives him permission to find a willing army from either England or Wales.
  • Richard de Clare (Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and his half-brothers Robert FitzStephen and Maurice FitzGerald, agree to help Diarmaid mac Murchadha in return for Diarmaid's daughter's hand in marriage.
  • Cartae Baronum ("Charters of the Barons"), a survey commissioned by the Treasury requiring each baron to declare how many knights he had enfeoffed.
  • Summer Henry II invades and conquers Brittany to punish the local Breton barons. He grants the territory to his 7-year-old son Geoffrey.[1]
  • Henry II enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming English law, with the aim of improving the justice process, including the jury system.[2]
  • William Marshal, a Norman statesman, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived", is knighted while on campaign in Normandy.

Ireland

  • Muirchertach mac Lochlainn, High King of Ireland, is killed. He is succeeded by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht, who defeats Diarmaid mac Murchadha (or Dermot) in battle, another ruler in eastern Ireland.

Births

  • February 24 Al-Mansur Abdallah, Zaidi imam (d. 1217)
  • July 29 Henry I (or Henry II), king of Jerusalem (d. 1197)
  • December 24 John, king of England (d. 1216)
  • Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati, Moorish pharmacist (d. 1239)
  • Alan IV (the Young), viscount of Rohan (d. 1205)
  • Arnold of Altena, German nobleman (d. 1209)
  • Choe U, Korean general and dictator (d. 1249)
  • Humphrey IV, lord of Toron (approximate date)
  • Judah ben Isaac Messer, French rabbi (b. 1224)
  • Odo III (or Eudes), duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)
  • Philip d'Aubigny, English nobleman (d. 1236)
  • Prithviraj Chauhan, Indian ruler of Ajmer (d. 1192)
  • Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (d. 1227)
  • Shunten (or Shunten-Ō), Ryukyu ruler (d. 1237)
  • Tamar the Great, queen of Georgia (d. 1213)
  • Wansong Xingxiu, Chinese Buddhist monk (d. 1246)
  • William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)

Deaths

  • February 21 Abdul Qadir Gilani, Persian preacher (b. 1078)
  • April 9 Waleran de Beaumont, English nobleman (b. 1104)
  • May 7 William I (the wicked), king of Sicily (b. 1120)
  • Ahmad Yasawi, Turkic Sufi religious leader (b. 1093)
  • Athanasius VII bar Qatra, Syrian patriarch of Antioch
  • Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (b. 1143)
  • Gillamaire Ua Conallta, Irish poet and Chief Ollam
  • Grigor III, Armenian catholicos of Cilicia (b. 1093)
  • Konoe Motozane, Japanese nobleman (b. 1143)
  • Muirchertach mac Lochlainn, High King of Ireland
  • Rosalia, Norman nobleman and saint (b. 1130)

References

  1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 67–69. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 125–126. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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