1169

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1166 1167 1168 – 1169 – 1170 1171 1172

1169 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1169 in poetry

1169 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1169 MCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	1922
Armenian calendar	618 ԹՎ ՈԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	5919
Bengali calendar	576
Berber calendar	2119
English Regnal year	15 Hen. 2 – 16 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1713
Burmese calendar	531
Byzantine calendar	6677–6678
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3865 or 3805     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3866 or 3806
Coptic calendar	885–886
Discordian calendar	2335
Ethiopian calendar	1161–1162
Hebrew calendar	4929–4930
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1225–1226
- Shaka Samvat	1091–1092
- Kali Yuga	4270–4271
Holocene calendar	11169
Igbo calendar	169–170
Iranian calendar	547–548
Islamic calendar	564–565
Japanese calendar	Nin'an 4 / Kaō 1 (嘉応元年)
Julian calendar	1169 MCLXIX
Korean calendar	3502
Minguo calendar	743 before ROC 民前743年
Seleucid era	1480/1481 AG
Thai solar calendar	1711–1712

Year 1169 (MCLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

by area

Africa

• Nur ad-Din, atabeg of Aleppo, invades Egypt, and on March 26 names his nephew Saladin sultan as well as vizier of Cairo.

Europe

• January – Henry II of England and Louis VII of France sign a peace treaty which includes the betrothal of their respective heirs, twelve-year-old Richard I of England and nine-year-old Alys, Countess of the Vexin.^[1]
• February 4 – 1169 Sicily earthquake: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of around 7 strikes the eastern coast of Sicily, causing an estimated 15,000 deaths.
• May 1 – Norman invasion of Ireland begins.^[2] Among those arriving is Cambro-Norman knight (and vassal of Henry II of England) Richard de Clare who has made an alliance with exiled Irish chief Diarmait Mac Murchada to help him regain the throne of Leinster. This begins the period of Anglo-Norman dominance of Ireland.
• Siege of Badajoz by Gerald the Fearless. The adventurer receives the support of the Afonso I of Portugal. The Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, manages to broker an alliance with the King Ferdinand II of León against Afonso. The allies manage to besiege the Portuguese in Badajoz and finally to take both the king and Gerald prisoners.^[3]
• During the Swedish power struggle, Boleslaw is killed, but his brother Kol continues as king of Östergötland until 1173, in opposition to king Knut Eriksson of Sweden.
• The appointed Bishop of Estonia, Fulco, becomes the first known Christian missionary to visit Estonia.
• Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky of Vladimir-Suzdal sacks Kiev and makes Vladimir the capital of Kievan Rus'.

By topic

Arts

• Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her own court in Poitiers. It will become known as a center of courtly love.

Births

• September 10 – Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

Deaths

• January 2 – Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)
• July 9 – Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian
• Stephen du Perche, chancellor of Sicily and archbishop of Palermo
• Boleslaw Sverkerson, king of Östergötland (Sweden) since 1167

References

1. Warren, W. L. (1961). King John. University of California Press. p. 37.
2. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., ed. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
3. Picard, Christophe (2000). Le Portugal musulman, VIIIe-XIIIe siècle: L'Occident d'al-Andalus sous domination islamique. Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose. p. 110. ISBN 2-7068-1398-9.