1162

year
Millennium:2nd millennium
Centuries:11th century12th century13th century
Decades: 1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:1159 1160 116111621163 1164 1165

Events

Births

  • October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)
  • Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveller and writer
  • Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (died 1227)
  • Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (died 1206)
  • Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician
  • Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (died 1218)

Deaths

  • February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
  • June 27 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
  • July 7 – Haakon II of Norway
  • August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
  • Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (born 1101)
  • Iziaslav III of Kiev
  • Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (born 1090)