1160

This article is about the year 1160. For the number, see 1160 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1157 1158 1159 – 1160 – 1161 1162 1163

1160 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1160 in poetry

1160 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1160 MCLX
Ab urbe condita	1913
Armenian calendar	609 ԹՎ ՈԹ
Assyrian calendar	5910
Bengali calendar	567
Berber calendar	2110
English Regnal year	6 Hen. 2 – 7 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1704
Burmese calendar	522
Byzantine calendar	6668–6669
Chinese calendar	己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3856 or 3796     — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3857 or 3797
Coptic calendar	876–877
Discordian calendar	2326
Ethiopian calendar	1152–1153
Hebrew calendar	4920–4921
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1216–1217
- Shaka Samvat	1082–1083
- Kali Yuga	4261–4262
Holocene calendar	11160
Igbo calendar	160–161
Iranian calendar	538–539
Islamic calendar	554–555
Japanese calendar	Heiji 2 / Eiryaku 1 (永暦元年)
Julian calendar	1160 MCLX
Korean calendar	3493
Minguo calendar	752 before ROC 民前752年
Seleucid era	1471/1472 AG
Thai solar calendar	1702–1703

Year 1160 (MCLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Almohads conquer Mahdia from the Normans after an important naval success near the city against Christian reenforcement coming from Sicily.
• A commercial treaty between the Almohad caliphate and the Republic of Pisa opens the North African ports to Tuscan merchants.

Asia

• The Heiji Rebellion continues in Japan. Some 500 Minamoto rebels opposed to the retired emperor Go-Shirakawa carry out a daring raid on the Sanjo Palace.
• Yasovarman II succeeds his uncle Dharanindravarman as ruler of the Khmer Empire. Dharanindravarman's son Jayavarman acquiesces to his cousin's succession and goes into exile in neighboring Champa.
• Reynald of Chatillon is arrested by the Muslims.

Europe

• February 3 – Emperor Frederick Barbarossa takes Crema, Italy following a cruel siege, as part of his campaign against the independent Italian city-states.
• May 18 – Erik Jedvardsson is murdered, after which his murderer Magnus Henriksen proclaims himself king of Sweden. He is murdered in turn the following year, however. Eric is soon worshipped as a saint. Though never formally canonized by the pope, he eventually becomes the patron saint of Sweden.
• Richard FitzNeal is named Treasurer of the Exchequer of England, and begins writing a handbook for the division, his Dialogus de Scaccario. It will describe the organization of personnel, the duties of each, how to audit sheriff's accounts at Easter and Michaelmas, how to value coinage, and how to draw up receipts.
• The city of Tomar is founded in Portugal by Gualdim Pais.
• Spital am Semmering is founded by Margrave Ottokar III of Styria.
• Large Portuguese offensive in the Alentejo against the Muslims.

By topic

Education

• Derby School is founded at Derby, England.

Births

• October 4 – Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. c. 1220)
• Yaqub, Almohad Caliph, ruler of Morocco (d. 1199)
• John de Courcy, Earl of Ulster (d. 1219)
• Rabbi David Kimhi, biblical commentator (d. 1235)
• Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (d. 1218)
• Taira no Noritsune, Japanese warrior (d. 1185)
• Geoffrey of Villehardouin, French chronicler (d. c. (1212)
• Ibn al-Athir, Anatolian historian (d. 1233)
• Sibylla of Jerusalem, daughter of Almaric I and Agnes of Courtenay (d. 1190)
• Dulce, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1198)
• Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din, the second emir of Damascus.
• Robin Hood, a heroic outlaw in English folklore (d. 1247)
• Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen (d. 1218)

Deaths

• February 11 – Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)
• May 18 – Eric Jedvardsson, king of Sweden since 1156 (b. c. 1120)
• July 20 – Peter Lombard, French scholastic philosopher (b. c. 1100)
• October 4 – Constance of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1141)
• date unknown
  • Al-Muqtafi, Caliph of Baghdad
  • Dharanindravarman II, ruler of the Khmer Empire
  • Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (b. 1140)
  • Raymond du Puy, the first Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller. (b. c.1083)