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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1168 1169 1170 – 1171 – 1172 1173 1174

1171 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

1171 in poetry v • d • e

1171 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1171 MCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	1924
Armenian calendar	620 ԹՎ ՈԻ
Bahá'í calendar	-673 – -672
Bengali calendar	578
Berber calendar	2121
Buddhist calendar	1715
Burmese calendar	533
Byzantine calendar	6679 – 6680
Chinese calendar	庚寅年十一月廿三日 (3807/3867-11-23) — to — 辛卯年十二月初三日 (3808/3868-12-3)
Coptic calendar	887 – 888
Ethiopian calendar	1163 – 1164
Hebrew calendar	4931 – 4932
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1226 – 1227
- Shaka Samvat	1093 – 1094
- Kali Yuga	4272 – 4273
Holocene calendar	11171
Iranian calendar	549 – 550
Islamic calendar	566 – 567
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3504
Thai solar calendar	1714
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Saladin abolishes the Fatimid caliphate, restoring Sunni rule in Egypt.
• Manuel I Comnenus orders all the Venetians in the Byzantine Empire to be arrested and their property confiscated.
• Rhys ap Gruffydd agrees to negotiate with Henry II of England.
• Construction of the Cathedral of Saint Sabino in Bari is completed.
• Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja begins his sole reign.
• Alfonso II of Aragon conquers Caspe and Teruel.
• Henry II of England, with the aid of the ousted King of the Irish province of Leinster, Diarmait MacMurrough, sponsors the Norman invasion of Ireland, sparking eight centuries of conflict and war between Ireland and England.

[edit] Births

• August 15—King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
• Agnes of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. after 1207)

[edit] Deaths

• January 1—Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster (b. 1110)
• February 20—Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
• August 8 – Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester (b. 1111)
• November 8—Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
• date unknown – Gleb of Kiev, Grand Prince of Kiev