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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1155 1156 1157 – 1158 – 1159 1160 1161

1158 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1158 in poetry v • d • e

1158 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1158 MCLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1911
Armenian calendar	607 ԹՎ ՈԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-686 – -685
Bengali calendar	565
Berber calendar	2108
Buddhist calendar	1702
Burmese calendar	520
Byzantine calendar	6666 – 6667
Chinese calendar	丁丑年十一月廿九日 (3794/3854-11-29) — to — 戊寅年十二月初九日 (3795/3855-12-9)
Coptic calendar	874 – 875
Ethiopian calendar	1150 – 1151
Hebrew calendar	4918 – 4919
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1213 – 1214
- Shaka Samvat	1080 – 1081
- Kali Yuga	4259 – 4260
Holocene calendar	11158
Iranian calendar	536 – 537
Islamic calendar	552 – 553
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3491
Thai solar calendar	1701
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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.1.1 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

• January 11 — Vladislav II becomes king of Bohemia.
• November 29 — Eleanor of Aquitaine arrives in Salisbury, Wiltshire on royal business.
• The Diet of Roncaglia is convoked by Frederick Barbarossa.
• The University of Bologna is granted its first privileges by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
• The Diocese of Derry is founded in Ireland.
• British Pound Sterling (currency) is introduced.
• Margrave Ottokar III of Styria inherits the County of Pitten.

[edit] Asia

• Emperor Nijō formally succeeds Emperor Go-Shirakawa on the throne of Japan; Go-Shirikawa continues a cloistered rule until his death in 1192.

[edit] Births

• September 23 — Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186)
• Marguerite of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1197)
• Taira no Shigehira, son of Taira no Kiyomori (d. 1185)

[edit] Deaths

• July 27 — Geoffrey VI, Count of Anjou (b. 1134)
• August 30 — King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
• September 22 — Otto of Freising, German bishop and chronicler (b. c. 1114)