1161

Year 1161 (MCLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1161 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1161
MCLXI
Ab urbe condita1914
Armenian calendar610
ԹՎ ՈԺ
Assyrian calendar5911
Balinese saka calendar1082–1083
Bengali calendar568
Berber calendar2111
English Regnal year7 Hen. 2  8 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1705
Burmese calendar523
Byzantine calendar6669–6670
Chinese calendar庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3857 or 3797
     to 
辛巳年 (Metal Snake)
3858 or 3798
Coptic calendar877–878
Discordian calendar2327
Ethiopian calendar1153–1154
Hebrew calendar4921–4922
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1217–1218
 - Shaka Samvat1082–1083
 - Kali Yuga4261–4262
Holocene calendar11161
Igbo calendar161–162
Iranian calendar539–540
Islamic calendar555–557
Japanese calendarEiryaku 2 / Ōhō 1
(応保元年)
Javanese calendar1067–1068
Julian calendar1161
MCLXI
Korean calendar3494
Minguo calendar751 before ROC
民前751年
Nanakshahi calendar−307
Seleucid era1472/1473 AG
Thai solar calendar1703–1704
Tibetan calendar阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1287 or 906 or 134
     to 
阴金蛇年
(female Iron-Snake)
1288 or 907 or 135
King Magnus V (middle) (1156–1184)

Events

Europe

  • February 3 Battle of Oslo: King Inge I (the Hunchback) is defeated and killed, while fighting the forces of Haakon II (the Broadshouldered). He is succeeded by Haakon with the 5-year-old Magnus V as co-ruler, but not without challenges to his sovereignty.
  • Magnus II (Henriksson), pretender to the Swedish throne, is murdered by Charles VII (or Karl), who becomes king of Sweden (until 1167).
  • An Almoravid offensive against the Kingdom of Portugal reaches the city of Almada (located on the Tagus River).[1]

Asia

  • Jin–Song Wars: The Battle of Tangdao (November 16) and Battle of Caishi (November 2627) on the Yangtze River, between the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in China, result in two pivotal Song naval victories.
  • December 15 – Wanyan Liang, Chinese prince of Hailing, is assassinated while on campaign. He is succeeded by Emperor Shi Zong of the Jin Dynasty (until 1189).

England

  • Spring Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury dies after an illness. King Henry II is informed and he expresses the wish to have his friend Thomas Becket elected as his successor.
  • Bartholomew Iscanus is elected and consecrated as bishop of Exeter (until 1184).

Religion

  • The Cross of Euphrosyne, commissioned by Euphrosyne of Polotsk, is created by craftsman Lazar Bohsa (The cross later went missing during World War II, and has not been recovered).

Births

Deaths

  • February 3 Inge I (the Hunchback), king of Norway (b. 1135)
  • April 18 Theobald of Bec, archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1090)
  • May 12 Fergus of Galloway, Scottish nobleman
  • June 14 Qin Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1100)
  • September 10 Tala'i ibn Ruzzik, Fatimid vizier
  • September 11 Melisende, queen of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
  • October 12 Henry V, duke of Carinthia (House of Sponheim)
  • October 28 Imar of Tusculum, French abbot and bishop
  • November 21 William III, count of Nevers and Auxerre
  • November 23 Adam of Ebrach, German monk and abbot
  • December 15 Wanyan Liang, Chinese emperor (b. 1122)
  • Akarius Fitz Bardolph, English nobleman and knight
  • Hu Hong, Chinese scholar and philosopher (b. 1105)
  • Magnus II (Henriksson), king of Sweden (b. 1130)
  • Rechung Dorje Drakpa, Tibetan Buddhist leader
  • Roger IV, duke of Apulia and Calabria (b. 1152)

References

  1. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman, VIIIe-XIIIe Siècle: L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.
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