1170

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1167 1168 1169 – 1170 – 1171 1172 1173

1170 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1170 in poetry

1170 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1170 MCLXX
Ab urbe condita	1923
Armenian calendar	619 ԹՎ ՈԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	5920
Bengali calendar	577
Berber calendar	2120
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 2 – 17 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1714
Burmese calendar	532
Byzantine calendar	6678–6679
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3866 or 3806     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3867 or 3807
Coptic calendar	886–887
Discordian calendar	2336
Ethiopian calendar	1162–1163
Hebrew calendar	4930–4931
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1226–1227
- Shaka Samvat	1092–1093
- Kali Yuga	4271–4272
Holocene calendar	11170
Igbo calendar	170–171
Iranian calendar	548–549
Islamic calendar	565–566
Japanese calendar	Kaō 2 (嘉応２年)
Julian calendar	1170 MCLXX
Korean calendar	3503
Minguo calendar	742 before ROC 民前742年
Seleucid era	1481/1482 AG
Thai solar calendar	1712–1713

Year 1170 (MCLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• November (or December) – Henry II of England, when word reaches him in France of Thomas Becket's latest actions, utters words that are interpreted by his followers as a wish for the archbishop's death.
• December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral.
• The Danes attack Estonia.
• The city of Dublin is captured by the Normans.
• The East Frisian island of Bant is broken up in a North Sea flood.
• Palace guards massacre the civil officials at the Korean court and place a new king on the throne. The coup leaders abolish the privileges that have kept the aristocrats in power and appoint themselves to senior posts.
• Earliest dating for the making of Cheddar cheese
• According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailes to North America in his ship the Gwennan Gorn and founds a colony.
• Estimation: Fes in the Almohad Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.^[1]

Births

• May 9 – Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241) (alternative date is June 28)
• Eustace the Monk, French pirate (d. 1217)
• Isabella of Hainault, queen of Philip II of France (d. 1190)
• Muqali, general of Genghis Khan
• Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)
• Approximate date – Fibonacci (Leonardo Pisano Bigollo), Pisan mathematician (d. 1240/50)

Deaths

• January 22 – Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (b. 1113)
• April 23 – Minamoto no Tametomo, Japanese samurai, first known person to die by seppuku (b. 1139)
• November 18 – Albert I of Brandenburg (b. c. 1100)
• November 28 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. c. 1100)
• December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. c. 1118)
• Al-Mustanjid, Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
• Ruben II, Prince of Armenia (b. 1160)
• Mstislav II of Kiev
• Eliezer ben Nathan, Jewish poet and writer (b. 1090)
• Odo, Viscount of Porhoet, co-ruler of the duchy of Brittany

References

1. "Largest Cities Through History". About.com Geography.