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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1165 1166 1167 – 1168 – 1169 1170 1171

1168 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

1168 in poetry v • d • e

1168 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1168 MCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1921
Armenian calendar	617 ԹՎ ՈԺԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-676 – -675
Berber calendar	2118
Buddhist calendar	1712
Burmese calendar	530
Byzantine calendar	6676 – 6677
Chinese calendar	丁亥年十一月十九日 (3804/3864-11-19) — to — 戊子年十二月初一日 (3805/3865-12-1)
Coptic calendar	884 – 885
Ethiopian calendar	1160 – 1161
Hebrew calendar	4928 – 4929
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1223 – 1224
- Shaka Samvat	1090 – 1091
- Kali Yuga	4269 – 4270
Holocene calendar	11168
Iranian calendar	546 – 547
Islamic calendar	563 – 564
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3501
Thai solar calendar	1711
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• December 22—Afraid that the Egyptian capital Fustat (in today's Old Cairo) will be captured by the Crusaders, its Fatimid vizier, Shawar, orders the city set afire. The city burns for 54 days.
• Prince Richard of England becomes duke of Aquitaine. He later becomes King Richard I of England.
• Emperor Takakura ascends to the throne of Japan.
• King Valdemar I of Denmark conquers Arkona on the Island of Rügen, the strongest pagan fortress and temple in Northern Europe.

[edit] Births

• Hugh IX of Lusignan, crusader (d. 1219)
• Prithviraj Chauhan of India (d. 1192)

[edit] Deaths

• February 4—Thierry, Count of Flanders (b. 1099)
• April 5—Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)