1166

This article is about the year 1166.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1163 1164 1165 – 1166 – 1167 1168 1169

1166 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1166 in poetry

1166 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1166 MCLXVI
Ab urbe condita	1919
Armenian calendar	615 ԹՎ ՈԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	5916
Bengali calendar	573
Berber calendar	2116
English Regnal year	12 Hen. 2 – 13 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1710
Burmese calendar	528
Byzantine calendar	6674–6675
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3862 or 3802     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3863 or 3803
Coptic calendar	882–883
Discordian calendar	2332
Ethiopian calendar	1158–1159
Hebrew calendar	4926–4927
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1222–1223
- Shaka Samvat	1088–1089
- Kali Yuga	4267–4268
Holocene calendar	11166
Igbo calendar	166–167
Iranian calendar	544–545
Islamic calendar	561–562
Japanese calendar	Eiman 2 / Nin'an 1 (仁安元年)
Julian calendar	1166 MCLXVI
Korean calendar	3499
Minguo calendar	746 before ROC 民前746年
Seleucid era	1477/1478 AG
Thai solar calendar	1708–1709

Year 1166 (MCLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• July – Henry II of England conquers Brittany, granting the territory to his son Geoffrey.
• July 5 – First mention of the town of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria (in an ecclesiastical document).
• Henry II of England enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming the English law and defining the legal duties of sheriffs.
• Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Tribhuvanāditya comes to power in the Khmer empire following the assassination of Yasovarman II.
• Stefan Nemanja becomes Grand Župan of the Serbian Grand Principality.
• Henry the Lion has the first bronze statue (a heraldic lion) north of the Alps erected at Dankwarderode Castle.
• William Marshal, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted.

Births

• July 29 – Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
• December 24 – John of England (d. 1216)
• Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)
• William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)

Deaths

• May 7 – William I of Sicily
• Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend; per legend b. 1130)
• Abdul-Qadir Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyyah Sufi Tariqah (b. 1077)