1162

Year 1162 (MCLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1140s 1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s
Years:	1159 1160 1161 1162 1163 1164 1165

1162 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1162 MCLXII
Ab urbe condita	1915
Armenian calendar	611 ԹՎ ՈԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	5912
Balinese saka calendar	1083–1084
Bengali calendar	569
Berber calendar	2112
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 2 – 9 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1706
Burmese calendar	524
Byzantine calendar	6670–6671
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3858 or 3798     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3859 or 3799
Coptic calendar	878–879
Discordian calendar	2328
Ethiopian calendar	1154–1155
Hebrew calendar	4922–4923
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1218–1219
- Shaka Samvat	1083–1084
- Kali Yuga	4262–4263
Holocene calendar	11162
Igbo calendar	162–163
Iranian calendar	540–541
Islamic calendar	557–558
Japanese calendar	Ōhō 2 (応保２年)
Javanese calendar	1068–1069
Julian calendar	1162 MCLXII
Korean calendar	3495
Minguo calendar	750 before ROC 民前750年
Nanakshahi calendar	−306
Seleucid era	1473/1474 AG
Thai solar calendar	1704–1705
Tibetan calendar	阴金蛇年 (female Iron-Snake) 1288 or 907 or 135     — to — 阳水马年 (male Water-Horse) 1289 or 908 or 136

Emperor Xiao Zong (1127–1194)

Events

Europe

• March 6 – German forces led by Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) capture Milan, much of the city is destroyed three weeks later on the emperor's orders. The fortifications are demolished, and the churches are destroyed. The population is dispersed and the commune abolished.[1] The fate of Milan leads to the submission of Brescia, Piacenza, and many other northern Italian cities.[2]
• July 7 – Norwegian forces under the pretender Magnus V (Erlingsson) defeat the 15-year-old King Haakon II (Sigurdsson), who is killed in battle in Romsdal after a 5-year reign.
• July 15 – Ladislaus II, duke of Bosnia, is declared king of Hungary and Croatia. He is crowned by Archbishop Mikó and grants one-third of the kingdom to his brother, Stephen IV.

England

• June 3 – King Henry II has his chancellor Thomas Becket elected to succeed the late Theobald of Bec as archbishop of Canterbury. He accepts the pallium send by Pope Alexander III.

Africa

• The Almohad emir, Abd al-Mu'min, prepares a gigantic fleet of some four hundred ships to invade Al-Andalus (modern Spain). He dies the following year, before the fleet is completed.[3]

China

• July 24 – Emperor Gao Zong becomes embroiled in war again as hostilities resume with the Jurchen-led Jin Dynasty (or Great Jin) after 21 years of peace. Another peace treaty is signed, Gao abdicates the throne in favor of his adopted son Xiao Zong. The smaller Southern Song empire becomes richer than the Song Dynasty.

Religion

• The Beisi Pagoda (or North Temple Pagoda) is completed during the Song Dynasty.

Births

• March 5 – Ogasawara Nagakiyo, Japanese warrior (d. 1242)
• March 11 – Theodoric I, margrave of Meissen (d. 1221)
• June 20 – Benchō, Japanese Buddhist patriarch (d. 1238)
• June 30 – Yang (or Gongsheng), Chinese empress (d. 1233)
• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abbasid traveler and writer (d. 1231)
• Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese poet and calligrapher (d. 1241)
• Gebre Mesqel, ruler of the Ethiopian Empire (d. 1221)
• Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (d. 1227)
• Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex (approximate date)
• Guillem de Cabestany, Spanish troubadour (d. 1212)
• Kajiwara Kagesue, Japanese nobleman (d. 1200)
• Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician (d. 1183)

Deaths

• February 18 – Theotonius, Portuguese advisor (b. 1082)
• May 31 – Géza II, king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1130)
• July 7 – Haakon II (Sigurdsson), king of Norway (b. 1147)
• July 29 – Guigues V, count of Albon and Grenoble (b. 1125)
• July 31 – Fujiwara no Tadazane, Japanese nobleman (b. 1078)
• August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona (b. 1114)
• September 27 – Odo II, duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• Adalbert of Pomerania, German missionary and bishop
• Angharad ferch Owain, queen of Gwynedd (b. 1065)
• Odo of Deuil (or Eudes), French abbot and historian
• Henry Aristippus (or Henricus), Italian chancellor
• Hugh de Morville, Norman nobleman and knight
• Ibn Zuhr (or Avenzoar), Moorish physician (b. 1094)
• Richard de Belmeis II, English bishop and politician
• Sylvester of Marsico, Norman nobleman (b. 1100)
• Tiantong Zongjue, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1091)

References

1. Andrew Roberts (2011). Great Commanders of the Medieval World (454–1582), p. 135. ISBN 978-0-85738-589-5.
2. Comyn, Robert (1851). History of the Western Empire, from its Restoration by Charlemagne to the Accession of Charles V, p. 246.
3. Picard C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, p. 77.