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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1169 1170 1171 – 1172 – 1173 1174 1175

1172 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

1172 in poetry v • d • e

1172 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1172 MCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1925
Armenian calendar	621 ԹՎ ՈԻԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-672 – -671
Bengali calendar	579
Berber calendar	2122
Buddhist calendar	1716
Burmese calendar	534
Byzantine calendar	6680 – 6681
Chinese calendar	辛卯年十二月初四日 (3808/3868-12-4) — to — 壬辰年十二月十五日 (3809/3869-12-15)
Coptic calendar	888 – 889
Ethiopian calendar	1164 – 1165
Hebrew calendar	4932 – 4933
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1227 – 1228
- Shaka Samvat	1094 – 1095
- Kali Yuga	4273 – 4274
Holocene calendar	11172
Iranian calendar	550 – 551
Islamic calendar	567 – 568
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3505
Thai solar calendar	1715
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Duke Richard of Aquitaine becomes Duke of Poitiers (later King Richard I of England).
• The future Pope Gregory VIII is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches, where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket.
• The Synod of Cashel ends the Celtic Christian system and brings them under Rome.

[edit] Births

• July – Baldwin I of Constantinople (d. 1205)
• date unknown
  • Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester (d. 1232)
  • Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke (d. 1220)
  • Louis I, Count of Blois (d. 1205)
  • Fujiwara Moroie, last of the Japanese Fujiwara Regents (d. 1238)
• probable
  • Isabella of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem 1190/1192–1205 (d. 1205)

[edit] Deaths

• March – Il-Arslan, Khwarazm Shah
• March 4 – King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
• June 20 – William III, Count of Ponthieu (b. c. 1095)
• December 23 – Ugo Ventimiglia, cardinal
• date unknown
  • Douce II, Countess of Provence (b. 1165)
  • Acharya Hemachandra, Indian mathematician, philosopher and historian (b. 1089)