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1160
During the Heiji Rebellion in Japan , the Sanjō Palace in Kyoto is besieged .
1160 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	608/609 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1152/53
Buddhist calendar	1703/04 (southern Buddhism); 1702/03 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	64th (65th) cycle Year of the Metal Dragon庚辰 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Rabbit 己卯)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	522/523 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	538/539
Islamic calendar	554/ 555 (January 11-12. // 30-31 December.) / 556
Jewish calendar	4920/21 (September 2/3)
Coptic calendar	876/877
Malayalam calendar	335/336
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1470/71 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1471/72 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1198
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1216/17 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

France

Adela von Champagne (4th from right) on a miniature in the Grandes Chroniques de France

• November 13th : Louis VII of France marries his third wife, Adela of Champagne .

Holy Roman Empire

• June 24th : Archbishop Arnold von Selenhofen is slain in a popular uprising in Mainz . The citizens force the city clergy to appoint Rudolf von Zähringen as his successor. A part of the bourgeoisie and clergy moves to Frankfurt and there elects Christian I von Buch as the new Archbishop and Elector in October . Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa , who does not recognize either of the two candidates, suppresses the uprising and takes away the city's walls and freedoms .

• Hermann IV of Baden becomes Margrave of Baden and Titular Margrave of Verona .

Asia

• January 19 to February 5 : During the Heiji Rebellion in Japan , the Sanjō Palace is besieged .

Voyages of discovery

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela

• The Jewish merchant Benjamin von Tudela begins his travels through the then known world from Tudela .

City rights and first documentary mentions

• Lübeck receives the Soest town charter . From here it spreads as Lübisches law to over 100 cities in the Baltic Sea region.
• The parish church of the Carinthian community Guttaring is first mentioned in a document.
• Bassecourt , Belmont-sur-Lausanne , Besenbüren , Buttwil , Eggenwil , Eiken , Escholzmatt , Feldkirch , Geltwil , Giffers , Hendschiken , Künten , Leopoldshafen , Meggen , Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz , Pagig , Salouf , Sarmenstorf , Siselen and Sulz , Tölz , Velpke as Vilebeke and Weißenhorn are first mentioned in a document.

Culture

• around 1160: The spiritual play Ludus de Antichristo is written in the area around the Tegernsee.

religion

• Heinrich the Lion moves the Diocese of Oldenburg in Holstein to Lübeck .

• around 1160: Heinrich the Lion founded the Diocese of Schwerin
• around 1160: The Jakobikirche is built in Christiansdorf .

Born

Date of birth saved

• May 11 : as-Sakkākī , Arabic grammarian and rhetorician († 1229 )
• May 12 : Ibn al-Athīr , Muslim historian († 1233 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Adolf III. , Count von Schauenburg and Holstein, founder of a settlement on the western bank of the Alster (Hamburg) († 1225 )
• Azriel of Gerona , Spanish rabbi († around 1238)
• Dulce of Barcelona , Queen of Portugal († 1198 )
• Guigues III. , Count of Forez († 1204 )
• Samuel ibn Tibbon , Jewish author and translator († 1230 )
• David Kimchi , Jewish grammarian and exegete († 1235 )
• Konoe Motomichi , Japanese regent († 1233 )
• Ma Yuan , Chinese painter († 1225 )
• Tamar , Queen of Georgia († 1213 )

Born around 1160

• Egino IV , Count of Urach († 1230 )
• Gruffydd ap Rhys , Prince of Deheubarth († 1201 )
• Hartmann I , Count of Württemberg († around 1240 )
• Pérotin , composer, Magister at Notre-Dame de Paris († between 1200 and 1225)

• after Adelheid von Meißen , Bohemian Queen († 1211 )

Died

Date of death secured

• January 16 : Hermann III. , Margrave of Baden, Margrave of Verona, Reichsvogt von Selz, participant in the 2nd crusade (* around 1105 )
• February 11th : Minamoto no Yoshitomo , Japanese military leader (* 1123 )

• March 12 : al-Muqtafi , Abbasid caliph (* 1096 )
• March 18 : Ibn al-Qalanisi , Muslim chronicler (* around 1070 )

• April 2nd : Beatrix II of Winzenburg , Abbess of Heerse and Quedlinburg
• May 12 : Otto III. , Duke of Olomouc (* 1122 )

Ubald by Gubbio

• May 16 : ubald , Bishop of Gubbio and Holy (* around 1080 / 85 )
• May 18 : Erik Jedvardsson , King of Sweden (* around 1120 )
• May 31 : Mathilde von Andechs , Abbess of Edelstetten (* around 1125 )

• June 19 : Sizzo III. , Count of Schwarzburg-Kevernburg (* around 1093 )
• 24 June : Arnold of Selenhofen , Archbishop of Mainz (* 1095 / 1100 )

• July 6 : Bernhard I von Oesede , Bishop of Paderborn
• July 20 : Peter Lombard , scholastics and Bishop (* around 1095 / 1100 )
• July 22 : al-Fa'iz , Caliph of the Fatimids (* 1149 )
• July 31st : Alfred , English clergyman

• 0October 3 : Adalgott , Bishop of Chur
• November 10th : Maio of Bari , Chancellor under Roger II of Sicily

Exact date of death unknown

• August: Niklot , Prince of the Abotrites, Kessiner and Circipan (Elbe Slavs), Lord of Schwerin, Quetzin and Malchow, ancestor of the Dukes of Mecklenburg (* around 1100 )

• Fujiwara no Michinori , advisor and chancellor of the Japanese emperor Nijō
• Heilwig von Lengenfeld , Countess
• Constanze of Castile , Queen of France (* 1140 )
• Madog ap Maredudd , King of the Welsh Principality of Powys
• Mathieu I. de Montmorency , Constable of France
• Sophie von Winzenburg , Margravine of Brandenburg (* 1105 )

Died around 1160

• Adelard von Bath , English scholar (* around 1070 )
• Mary of Bohemia , Margravine of Baden and Verona
• Dimitri I , Georgian King (* 1093 )
• Konrad I , burgrave of Nuremberg (* around 1186 )
• Bertha von Sulzbach , Empress of Byzantium (* around 1110 )

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