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| 1168 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 616/617 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1160/61 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1711/12 (southern Buddhism); 1710/11 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 64th (65th) cycle
Year of the earth-rat戊子 ( at the beginning of the year fire-pig 丁亥) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 530/531 (turn of the year April) |
| Iranian calendar | 546/547 |
| Islamic calendar | 563/564 (October 4th / 5th) |
| Jewish calendar | 4928/29 (September 4/5) |
| Coptic calendar | 884/885 |
| Malayalam calendar | 343/344 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1478/79 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1479/80 (turn of the year October) |
| Spanish era | 1206 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1224/25 (turn of the year April) |
Events
Politics and world events
Holy Roman Empire
- February 1 : Heinrich the Lion marries Mathilde Plantagenet , only twelve years old , daughter of King Henry II of England , sister of Richard the Lionheart , in Minden Cathedral . The wedding ceremony is carried out by Bishop Werner von Minden .
- July 10 : Emperor Frederick Barbarossa granted the Bishop of Wurzburg , Herold Hochheim am Main , on a held in the city Reichstag that as Güldene freedom designated privilege that every bishop in the future, among other secular jurisdiction allowed on its territory.
- The Counts of Plain burn in enforcement of the of Frederick Barbarossa imposed imperial ban , the city of Salzburg down.
middle East
Amalrich I , King of Jerusalem , with the support of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I, invades Egypt, ruled by the Fatimids , for the third time in five years . The local vizier Shawar asks the Zengids in Syria for support. Nur ad-Din , ruler of Aleppo , sends troops to Cairo and thus becomes the patron of Egypt. At the side of the general Schirkuh is his nephew Saladin . An open field battle between the armies is avoided on both sides. Eventually the crusaders retreated back to Jerusalem.
Northern Europe
- Waldemar I of Denmark conquers Rügen and destroys the Slavic Swantewit sanctuary in the temple castle at Cape Arkona - a consistent Christianization follows.
First documentary mentions
- Bockfließ , Reiden and San Vittore are first mentioned in a document.
economy
- Solid silver and silver ore are found on the trade route from Halle to Prague . Then miners from Goslar came and settled in the Saxon town named after them, which later developed into the first Saxon mining town of Freiberg .
religion
- Calixt III. , Partisan Friedrich Barbarossa, replaces Paschal III , who died on September 20 . as antipope to Alexander III. from.
- The new construction of the Romanesque cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada begins.
Born
- Johannes Bonus , Italian lay brother († 1249 )
- Robert von Courtenay , French nobleman († 1239 )
Died
Date of death secured
- February 4th : Dietrich von Alsace , Count of Flanders (* around 1099 )
- April 5 : Robert de Beaumont , Earl of Leicester (* 1104 )
- July 23 : Markward , Abbot of Fulda
- September 20 : Paschal III. , Antipope to Alexander III.
- September 27th : Herbord , German monk and biographer (* before 1145)
- September 28 : Konrad II of Babenberg , Bishop of Passau and Archbishop of Salzburg (* around 1115 )
- October 11 : Hartwig I. von Stade , Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen (* 1118 )
- October 23 : Máel Coluim , Scottish nobleman (* around 1110 )
- October 24th : Wilhelm IV. , Count of Nevers (* around 1130 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Friedrich II of Are , Bishop of Munster
- Gottfried I. , Count of Reichenbach and Ziegenhain (* 1099 )
- Al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Ziri , ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya
- Patrick of Salisbury , Earl of Salisbury
- Abū n-Nadschīb as-Suhrawardī , Iranian Sunni Sufi scholar (* around 1097 )
