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1170
Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral .
1170 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	618/619 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1162/63
Buddhist calendar	1713/14 (southern Buddhism); 1712/13 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	64th (65th) cycle Year of the Metal Tiger庚寅 ( at the beginning of the year Earth-Ox Jahres)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	532/533 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	548/549
Islamic calendar	565/566 (September 13-14)
Jewish calendar	4930/31 (September 11-12)
Coptic calendar	886/887
Malayalam calendar	345/346
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1480/81 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1481/82 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1208
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1226/27 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Crusader States

• Saladin unsuccessfully besieges the Templar fortress of Gaza .

England

The coronation of Henry the Younger, La vie de Saint Thomas de Cantorbéry , 13th century

• June 14 : The 15-year-old Henry the Younger is crowned King of England by the Archbishop of York as co-king of his father Henry II .
• Beginning of December: Thomas Becket , Archbishop of Canterbury , returns to England from his exile in France , where he is received with enthusiasm by the population. Before that, he excommunicated all the bishops involved in the coronation of the heir to the throne.
• December 29th : The knights Reginald Fitzurse , Hugh de Moreville , William de Tracy and Richard Brito assassinate Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral . They interpreted a tantrum from King Henry II as a murder assignment.

Other events in Europe

Monument to Otto I (center) in the former Berlin Siegesallee, created by the sculptor Max Unger

• November 18th : After the death of his father Albrecht the Bear , his son Otto I becomes his successor and thus the second Margrave of Brandenburg .
• Anglo-Normans conquer the city of Dublin .

City foundations and first documentary mentions

• First written mention of Eichstegen , Jagstzell and Mettembert
• Founding of Oldebroek by the Count of Geldern
• The Cologne Archbishop Philip of Heinsberg founded in Bredelar the monastery Bredelar .

science and technology

Facsimile of a Latin edition of the 1484 canon

• around 1170: A group around Gerhard von Cremona translates the work Canon of Medicine by the Persian doctor and polymath Avicenna into Latin in Toledo . It becomes a standard work of medical education in the Middle Ages and modern times up to the 19th century.

society

• King Alfonso VIII of Castile founds the Santiagoorden .
• The Brandenburg eagle appears for the first time in the statue of the Askanier Otto I of Brandenburg .

Disasters

The flood area of ​​the All Saints Flood in 1170

• November 1st / 2nd : The All Saints Flood , one of the largest historically known storm surges on the North Sea , causes severe damage to the Dutch and Frisian North Sea coasts. Between Texel and Wieringen , the flood tears so much bog out of the “Moerwaard”, the swamp bog between Wieringen and Texel, into the North Sea that the Marsdiep lake is created from a previous bog river and the two islands are separated from each other. Almere , which was previously influenced by freshwater , became the saltwater Zuiderzee .

Historical maps and views

The Byzantine Empire 1170

Born

Date of birth saved

• June 28 : Waldemar II , King of Denmark († 1241 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• March: Hildegunde , saint († 1188 )
• June / July: Otto I. , Count Palatine († 1200 )
• Asukai Masatsune , Japanese poet († 1221 )
• Gebhard I. von Plain , Bishop of Passau († 1232 )
• Henri I. Clément , Marshal of France († 1214 )
• Isabella I , Queen of Jerusalem († 1205 )
• Isabella of Hainaut , Queen of France († 1190 )
• Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada , Spanish cleric, general and historian, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain († 1247 )
• Zhao Rukuo , Chinese trade official († 1231 )

Born around 1170

• Maelgwn ap Rhys , Welsh prince of Ceredigion († 1230 )
• Heinrich Borwin II , Prince of Mecklenburg († 1226 )
• John of Brienne , King of Jerusalem († 1237 )
• Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent , Justiciar of England and Ireland († 1243 )
• Dominic , founder of the Dominican Order of Preachers († 1221 )
• Amicia FitzWilliam , Anglo-Norman nobleman († 1225 )
• Conrad IV von Frontenhausen , German count, bishop and chancellor of King Philip of Swabia († 1226 )
• Håkon Galen , Norwegian Jarl. († 1214 )
• Rhys Mechyll , Welsh Lord († 1244 )
• Eustace de Vesci , Anglo-Norman nobleman († 1216 )
• Alexander de Villa Dei , author of Latin textbooks

Walther von der Vogelweide

• Walther von der Vogelweide , German minstrel († around 1230 )
• Gunzelin von Wolfenbüttel , German Minister († 1255 )

Died

Date of death secured

• January 21 : Gunther von Andlau , Abbot of St. Blasien
• January 26th : Anséric I , lord of the Montréal castle
• July 17th : Eberhard II. Von Otelingen , Bishop of Bamberg (* around 1100)
• September 14th : Heilika von Lengenfeld , Count Palatine of Bavaria (* around 1103)
• October 12 : Adolf II , Count von Berg and Berg-Altena (* around 1095 )
• November 18 : Albrecht I , Duke of Saxony, first Margrave of Brandenburg (* around 1100 )
• November 20 : Gerung , Abbot of the Bosau Monastery and Bishop of Meissen
• November 25th : Rainald II , Count von Bar
• December 20 : Abu l-Muzaffar Yusuf ibn Muhammad al-Muqtafi l-Mustanjid bi-'llah , Abbasid Caliph (* 1124 )

Martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Secco painting in Brunswick Cathedral around 1250

• December 29th : Thomas Becket , English Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury (* 1118 )

Exact date of death unknown

• January: Ulrich von Steinfeld , Premonstratensian Canon and Provost
• November: Owain Gwynedd , Welsh King (* around 1100 )
• Abu Hamid al-Gharnati , Arab traveler, geographer and writer (* around 1080)
• Hermann , Bishop of Hildesheim
• Hywel ab Owain , Welsh ruler
• Joseph Kimchi , Jewish grammarian, exegete and translator (* 1105 )
• Minamoto no Tametomo , Samurai (* 1139 )
• Mstislav II , Grand Duke of the Kievan Rus
• Phagmodrupa Dorje Gyelpo , person of Tibetan Buddhism (* 1110 )
• Robert Fitzharding , Anglo-Saxon nobleman (* around 1095)
• Ruben II , Prince of Lesser Armenia (* around 1165 )
• Wang Zhe , Chinese founder of the Daoist Quanzhen school of inner alchemy (* 1113 )
• Werner , Bishop of Minden

Died around 1170

• Hugo von Ibelin , Herr von Ibelin, Ramla and Mirabel

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