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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1163 1164 1165 – 1166 – 1167 1168 1169

1166 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

1166 in poetry v • d • e

1166 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1166 MCLXVI
Ab urbe condita	1919
Armenian calendar	615 ԹՎ ՈԺԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-678 – -677
Berber calendar	2116
Buddhist calendar	1710
Burmese calendar	528
Byzantine calendar	6674 – 6675
Chinese calendar	乙酉年十一月廿八日 (3802/3862-11-28) — to — 丙戌年十二月初八日 (3803/3863-12-8)
Coptic calendar	882 – 883
Ethiopian calendar	1158 – 1159
Hebrew calendar	4926 – 4927
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1221 – 1222
- Shaka Samvat	1088 – 1089
- Kali Yuga	4267 – 4268
Holocene calendar	11166
Iranian calendar	544 – 545
Islamic calendar	561 – 562
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3499
Thai solar calendar	1709
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• July 5—Document written that first mentions the town of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria.
• Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Henry the Lion erects the first bronze statue north of the Alps.
• The Assize of Clarendon is enacted in England.
• Tribhuvanāditya comes to power in the Khmer empire.

[edit] Births

• July 29—Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
• December 24—John of England (d. 1216)
• Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)
• William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)

[edit] Deaths

• May 7—William I of Sicily
• Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend; per legend b. 1130)
• Abdul-Qadir Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyyah Sufi Tariqah (b. 1077)