1159
Calendar year
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Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
- September 7 â Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope.[1][2][3]
- Taira no Kiyomori leaves KyÅto 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 â Wladislaus II, the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)[16][17]
- August 29 â Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (b. 1110s)[18][19]
- September 1 â Pope Adrian IV (b. c. 1100)[20][21][22]
- October 11 â William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)[23][24]
- Joscelin II, Count of Edessa[25][26][27]