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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1160 1161 1162 – 1163 – 1164 1165 1166

1163 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

1163 in poetry v • d • e

1163 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1163 MCLXIII
Ab urbe condita	1916
Armenian calendar	612 ԹՎ ՈԺԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-681 – -680
Berber calendar	2113
Buddhist calendar	1707
Burmese calendar	525
Byzantine calendar	6671 – 6672
Chinese calendar	壬午年十一月廿五日 (3799/3859-11-25) — to — 癸未年十二月初五日 (3800/3860-12-5)
Coptic calendar	879 – 880
Ethiopian calendar	1155 – 1156
Hebrew calendar	4923 – 4924
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1218 – 1219
- Shaka Samvat	1085 – 1086
- Kali Yuga	4264 – 4265
Holocene calendar	11163
Iranian calendar	541 – 542
Islamic calendar	558 – 559
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3496
Thai solar calendar	1706
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Owain Gwynedd is recognized as ruler of Wales.
• Silesian duchies accept the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire.
• The Law of Succession is introduced in Norway.
• Council of Tours: Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.
• Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house by Cornwall.
• The Egyptian empire is resurrected for 10 days.
• The Guanfuchang salt-fields (官富場) in Hong Kong, nowadays To Kwa Wan, Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong and Lam Tin districts, are first officially operated by the Song Dynasty.
• The first stone of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral is set by Pope Alexander III.
• The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa.

[edit] Births

• Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (d. 1204)
• Canute VI of Denmark (d. 1202)
• Ottokar IV of Styria (d. 1192)
• Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent (d. 1224)
• As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (d. 1181)

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 – King Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
• date unknown
  • Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch (b. 1127)
  • Abd al-Mumin, founder of the Almohad empire (b. 1094)
  • Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1089)