1159
Calendar year
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Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
| Gregorian calendar | 1159 MCLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1912 |
| Armenian calendar | 608 ԹՎ ՈԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5909 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1080–1081 |
| Bengali calendar | 565–566 |
| Berber calendar | 2109 |
| English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 2 – 6 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1703 |
| Burmese calendar | 521 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6667–6668 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3856 or 3649 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3857 or 3650 |
| Coptic calendar | 875–876 |
| Discordian calendar | 2325 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1151–1152 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4919–4920 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1215–1216 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1080–1081 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4259–4260 |
| Holocene calendar | 11159 |
| Igbo calendar | 159–160 |
| Iranian calendar | 537–538 |
| Islamic calendar | 553–554 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōgen 4 / Heiji 1 (平治元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1065–1066 |
| Julian calendar | 1159 MCLIX |
| Korean calendar | 3492 |
| Minguo calendar | 753 before ROC 民前753年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −309 |
| Seleucid era | 1470/1471 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1701–1702 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1285 or 904 or 132 — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 1286 or 905 or 133 |
Events
- September 7 – Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope.[1][2][3]
- Taira no Kiyomori leaves Kyōto on a personal pilgrimage, giving Fujiwara no Nobuyori and his Minamoto allies the perfect chance to stage an uprising.[4][5][6]
- Tunis is reconquered from the Normans, by the Almohad caliphs.[7][8][9]
- (Approximate date): Churchman Richard FitzNeal is appointed Lord High Treasurer in England, in charge of Henry II of England's Exchequer, an office he will hold for almost 40 years.[10][11][12]
Births
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (d. 1189)[13][14][15]
Deaths
- May 30 – Wladislaus II, the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)[16][17]
- August 29 – Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (b. 1110s)[18][19]
- September 1 – Pope Adrian IV (b. c. 1100)[20][21][22]
- October 11 – William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)[23][24]
- Joscelin II, Count of Edessa[25][26][27]