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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1159 1160 1161 – 1162 – 1163 1164 1165

1162 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

1162 in poetry v • d • e

1162 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1162 MCLXII
Ab urbe condita	1915
Armenian calendar	611 ԹՎ ՈԺԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-682 – -681
Berber calendar	2112
Buddhist calendar	1706
Burmese calendar	524
Byzantine calendar	6670 – 6671
Chinese calendar	辛巳年十二月十四日 (3798/3858-12-14) — to — 壬午年十一月廿四日 (3799/3859-11-24)
Coptic calendar	878 – 879
Ethiopian calendar	1154 – 1155
Hebrew calendar	4922 – 4923
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1217 – 1218
- Shaka Samvat	1084 – 1085
- Kali Yuga	4263 – 4264
Holocene calendar	11162
Iranian calendar	540 – 541
Islamic calendar	557 – 558
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3495
Thai solar calendar	1705
v • d • e

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

• June 3 — Thomas Becket is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• July 15 — Ladislaus II of Hungary is declared King of Hungary.
• Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa seizes and destroys Milan, scattering its inhabitants among four villages.

[edit] Asia

• July 24 — Emperor Gaozong abdicates to Emperor Xiaozong.
• July 25 — Emperor Xiaozong announces he will posthumously rehabilitate Yue Fei.
• The Beisi Pagoda of Song Dynasty China is completed.

[edit] Births

• October 13 — Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
• Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveler and writer (d. 1231)
• Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (d. 1227)
• Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (d. 1206)
• Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician (d. 1183)
• Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (d. 1218)

[edit] Deaths

• February 10 — King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• June 27 — Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• July 7 — King Haakon II of Norway
• August 6 — Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c. 1113)
• Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (b. 1101)
• Iziaslav III of Kiev
• Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (b. 1090)