1163

This article is about the year 1163. For the number, see 1163 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1160 1161 1162 – 1163 – 1164 1165 1166

1163 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1163 in poetry

1163 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1163 MCLXIII
Ab urbe condita	1916
Armenian calendar	612 ԹՎ ՈԺԲ
Assyrian calendar	5913
Bengali calendar	570
Berber calendar	2113
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 2 – 10 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1707
Burmese calendar	525
Byzantine calendar	6671–6672
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 3859 or 3799     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 3860 or 3800
Coptic calendar	879–880
Discordian calendar	2329
Ethiopian calendar	1155–1156
Hebrew calendar	4923–4924
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1219–1220
- Shaka Samvat	1085–1086
- Kali Yuga	4264–4265
Holocene calendar	11163
Igbo calendar	163–164
Iranian calendar	541–542
Islamic calendar	558–559
Japanese calendar	Ōhō 3 / Chōkan 1 (長寛元年)
Julian calendar	1163 MCLXIII
Korean calendar	3496
Minguo calendar	749 before ROC 民前749年
Seleucid era	1474/1475 AG
Thai solar calendar	1705–1706

Year 1163 (MCLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Owain Gwynedd is recognized as ruler of Wales.
• Silesian duchies accept the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire.
• The Law of Succession is introduced in Norway.
• Council of Tours: Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.
• Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house by Cornwall.
• The Guanfuchang salt-fields (官富場) in Hong Kong, nowadays To Kwa Wan, Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong and Lam Tin districts, are first officially operated by the Song dynasty.
• The first stone of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral is set by Pope Alexander III.
• The Almohads finish driving the Normans out of North Africa.

Births

• Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (d. 1204)
• Canute VI of Denmark (d. 1202)
• Ottokar IV of Styria (d. 1192)
• Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent (d. 1224)
• As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (d. 1181)

Deaths

• January 14 – King Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
• date unknown
  • Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch (b. 1127)
  • Abd al-Mumin, founder of the Almohad empire (b. 1094)
  • Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1089)