Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1167 1168 1169 – 1170 – 1171 1172 1173

1170 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

1170 in poetry v • d • e

1170 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1170 MCLXX
Ab urbe condita	1923
Armenian calendar	619 ԹՎ ՈԺԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-674 – -673
Bengali calendar	577
Berber calendar	2120
Buddhist calendar	1714
Burmese calendar	532
Byzantine calendar	6678 – 6679
Chinese calendar	己丑年十二月十三日 (3806/3866-12-13) — to — 庚寅年十一月廿二日 (3807/3867-11-22)
Coptic calendar	886 – 887
Ethiopian calendar	1162 – 1163
Hebrew calendar	4930 – 4931
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1225 – 1226
- Shaka Samvat	1092 – 1093
- Kali Yuga	4271 – 4272
Holocene calendar	11170
Iranian calendar	548 – 549
Islamic calendar	565 – 566
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3503
Thai solar calendar	1713
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[edit] Events

• November/December – Henry II of England, when word reaches him in France of Thomas Becket's latest actions, utters words that are interpreted by his followers as a wish for the archbishop's death.
• December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral.
• The city of Dublin is captured by the Normans.
• According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailes to North America and founds a colony.
• Estimation: Fes in the Almohad Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
• The Danes attack Estonia.
• The palace guards massacre the civil officials at the Korean court and place a new king on the throne. The coup leaders scrap the privileges that have kept the aristocrats in power and appoint themselves to top posts.
• Earliest dating for the making of Cheddar cheese

[edit] Births

• Eustace the Monk, French pirate (d. 1217)
• Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of Philip II of France (d. 1190)
• Mukhali, general of Genghis Khan
• Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)
• Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241)
• Leonardo of Pisa (Leonardo Fibonacci) (d. 1250), mathematician

[edit] Deaths

• January 22 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (b. 1113)
• November 18 – Albert I of Brandenburg (b. c. 1100)
• November 28 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. c. 1100)
• December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. c. 1118)
• Al-Mustanjid, Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
• Ruben II of Armenia (b. 1160)
• Mstislav II of Kiev
• Eliezer ben Nathan, Jewish poet and writer (b. 1090)
• Eudes, Viscount of Porhoet, co-ruler of the duchy of Brittany