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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1156 1157 1158 – 1159 – 1160 1161 1162

1159 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

1159 in poetry v • d • e

1159 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1159 MCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1912
Armenian calendar	608 ԹՎ ՈԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-685 – -684
Berber calendar	2109
Buddhist calendar	1703
Burmese calendar	521
Byzantine calendar	6667 – 6668
Chinese calendar	戊寅年十二月初十日 (3795/3855-12-10) — to — 己卯年十一月二十日 (3796/3856-11-20)
Coptic calendar	875 – 876
Ethiopian calendar	1151 – 1152
Hebrew calendar	4919 – 4920
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1214 – 1215
- Shaka Samvat	1081 – 1082
- Kali Yuga	4260 – 4261
Holocene calendar	11159
Iranian calendar	537 – 538
Islamic calendar	553 – 554
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3492
Thai solar calendar	1702
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• In the Roman Catholic Church, cardinals are given the right to elect the Pope. Prior to this, the pope was elected by the clergy and congregation of the church.
• September 7—Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV as the 170th pope.
• The Heiji Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
• Tunis is reconquered from the Normans by the Almohad caliphs.

[edit] Births

• Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (d. 1189)

[edit] Deaths

• May 30—Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
• September 1—Pope Adrian IV (b. c. 1100)
• October 11—William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)
• Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (b. 1110s)
• Joscelin II, Count of Edessa