1162

This article is about the year 1162.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1159 1160 1161 – 1162 – 1163 1164 1165

1162 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1162 in poetry

1162 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1162 MCLXII
Ab urbe condita	1915
Armenian calendar	611 ԹՎ ՈԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	5912
Bengali calendar	569
Berber calendar	2112
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 2 – 9 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1706
Burmese calendar	524
Byzantine calendar	6670–6671
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3858 or 3798     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3859 or 3799
Coptic calendar	878–879
Discordian calendar	2328
Ethiopian calendar	1154–1155
Hebrew calendar	4922–4923
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1218–1219
- Shaka Samvat	1084–1085
- Kali Yuga	4263–4264
Holocene calendar	11162
Igbo calendar	162–163
Iranian calendar	540–541
Islamic calendar	557–558
Japanese calendar	Ōhō 2 (応保２年)
Julian calendar	1162 MCLXII
Korean calendar	3495
Minguo calendar	750 before ROC 民前750年
Seleucid era	1473/1474 AG
Thai solar calendar	1704–1705

Year 1162 (MCLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Almohad emir, Abd al-Mu'min, prepares a gigantic fleet of some four hundred ships to invade Spain. He dies the following year before the fleet is completed.

Asia

• July 24 – Emperor Gaozong abdicates to Emperor Xiaozong.
• July 25 – Emperor Xiaozong announces he will posthumously rehabilitate Yue Fei.
• The Beisi Pagoda of Song Dynasty China is completed.

Europe

• June 3 – Thomas Becket is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• July 15 – Ladislaus II of Hungary is declared King of Hungary.
• Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa seizes and destroys Milan, scattering its inhabitants among four villages.

Births

• October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi traveler and writer (d. 1231)
• Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese writer (d. 1241)
• Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (d. 1206)
• Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician (d. 1183)
• Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (d. 1218)
• Genghis Khan, Great Khan and founder of the Mongol Empire (d. 1227)

Deaths

• February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• June 27 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• July 7 – King Haakon II of Norway
• August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c. 1113)
• Iziaslav III of Kiev
• Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (b. 1090)