1167

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1164 1165 1166 – 1167 – 1168 1169 1170

1167 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1167 in poetry

1167 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1167 MCLXVII
Ab urbe condita	1920
Armenian calendar	616 ԹՎ ՈԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	5917
Bengali calendar	574
Berber calendar	2117
English Regnal year	13 Hen. 2 – 14 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1711
Burmese calendar	529
Byzantine calendar	6675–6676
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3863 or 3803     — to — 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3864 or 3804
Coptic calendar	883–884
Discordian calendar	2333
Ethiopian calendar	1159–1160
Hebrew calendar	4927–4928
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1223–1224
- Shaka Samvat	1089–1090
- Kali Yuga	4268–4269
Holocene calendar	11167
Igbo calendar	167–168
Iranian calendar	545–546
Islamic calendar	562–563
Japanese calendar	Nin'an 2 (仁安２年)
Julian calendar	1167 MCLXVII
Korean calendar	3500
Minguo calendar	745 before ROC 民前745年
Seleucid era	1478/1479 AG
Thai solar calendar	1709–1710

Year 1167 (MCLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April 12 – Charles VII of Sweden is murdered by Canute (son of Eric IX of Sweden), who proclaims himself king of Sweden. However, Charles's half brothers Boleslaw and Kol Sverkerson proclaim themselves kings of Östergötland, in opposition to Canute, which leads to fights for the power in Sweden until 1173.
• May 29 – Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of the Commune of Rome is defeated by the forces of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes; Pope Alexander III leaves Rome.^[1] Frederick proceeds to Rome where he is crowned by Antipope Paschal III for the second time.
• Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor besieges Ancona.
• Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor installs his 3-year-old son Frederick as Duke of Swabia in succession to the elder Frederick's cousin, Frederick IV.
• Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily.
• Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund.
• Absalon fortifies Copenhagen.
• Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon.
• Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt.
• William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre.
• Oath of Pontida marks the foundation of the Lombard League
• Henry II prohibits English students from attending the University of Paris; many settle at the University of Oxford.^[2]
• Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed Daijo Daijin, chief minister of the government of Japan.

Births

• February – Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (d. 1191)
• December 24 – John, King of England (d. 1216)

Deaths

• January 12 – St. Aelred of Rievaulx, abbot commonly believed to have died in the winter of 1167 (b. 1110)
• January 23 or January 28 – Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (b. 1092 or 1093)
• February 27 – Robert of Melun, English theologian and bishop
• April 12 – Charles VII, king of Sweden since 1161 (b. c. 1130)
• August
  • Henry II of Limburg (epidemic)
  • Děpold I of Jamnitz (epidemic)
  • Frederick IV of Swabia (epidemic)
• August 14 – Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (of epidemic after accompanying Frederick Barbarossa on a campaign into Latium) (b. c. 1120)
• September 10 – Empress Maud, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor) (b. 1102)
• Christian I, Count of Oldenburg
• Yesugei, father of Genghis Khan

References

1. Vigueur, Jean-Claude Maire (2010). L'autre Rome: Une histoire des Romains à l'époque communale (XIIe-XIVe siècle). Paris: Tallandier. p. 315. ISBN 978-2-84734-719-7.
2. Sager, Peter (2005). Oxford and Cambridge: An Uncommon History. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 36. ISBN 0500512493.