1172

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1172 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1172 MCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1925
Armenian calendar	621 ԹՎ ՈԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	5922
Balinese saka calendar	1093–1094
Bengali calendar	578–579
Berber calendar	2122
English Regnal year	18 Hen. 2 – 19 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1716
Burmese calendar	534
Byzantine calendar	6680–6681
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3869 or 3662 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3870 or 3663
Coptic calendar	888–889
Discordian calendar	2338
Ethiopian calendar	1164–1165
Hebrew calendar	4932–4933
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1228–1229
- Shaka Samvat	1093–1094
- Kali Yuga	4272–4273
Holocene calendar	11172
Igbo calendar	172–173
Iranian calendar	550–551
Islamic calendar	567–568
Japanese calendar	Jōan 2 (承安２年)
Javanese calendar	1079–1080
Julian calendar	1172 MCLXXII
Korean calendar	3505
Minguo calendar	740 before ROC 民前740年
Nanakshahi calendar	−296
Seleucid era	1483/1484 AG
Thai solar calendar	1714–1715
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 1298 or 917 or 145 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1299 or 918 or 146

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Events

April–May – Béla III returns to Hungary – where he is acclaimed king by the Hungarian nobility, after the death (possibly from poison) of his elder brother Stephen III, on March 4.
May 28 – Doge Vitale II Michiel, accused at a General Assembly at the Ducal Palace, for the destruction of the Venetian fleet, is stabbed to death by an angry mob at Venice.
Summer – The 14-year-old Richard (later Richard I of England) is formally recognized as duke of Aquitaine. The ceremony takes place at the church of St. Hilary in Poitiers.^[1]
A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades in Catalonia; this event marks the end of the pacification of the lands recently conquered by Count Ramon Berenguer IV ("the Saint").^[2]

April 17 – Henry II receives homage from the Irish princes who include Domnall Mór Ua Briain, king of Munster. He grants Hugh de Lacy the lordship of Meath (or Mide) for providing the services of 50 knights.^[3]
King Henry II of England and Humbert III, Count of Savoy ("the Blessed") agree to the marriage of their respective heirs, John and Alicia. The alliance never occurs because Henry's elder heir, Henry the Young King, becomes jealous over the castles in the realm which Henry has promised to the couple. He stages a rebellion which will take Henry two years to put down. By that time, Alicia will have died.^[4]

Summer – Emir Nur al-Din begins a two year war against the Danishmendids. He creates a buffer zone between the Syrian realm and Egypt. Meanwhile, he releases Count Raymond of Tripoli for the sum of 80,000 dinars.
Winter – The Nubians are engaged in a series of skirmishes along the frontier in Upper Egypt. A force of Kurdish troops under Turan-Shah, a brother of Saladin, attack the Nubians. He installs a garrison in Qasr Ibrim.^[5]

May 21 – Henry II of England does penance at Avranches Cathedral for the murder of Thomas Becket.
September 27–28 – Compromise of Avranches: Alberto di Morra is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches to investigate the Becket controversy. Henry II is absolved of censures for Becket's murder in view of his penance and swears to go on a crusade. He revokes two controversial clauses of the Constitutions of Clarendon and is reconciled with the papacy.
c. October – The Synod of Cashel in Ireland brings Celtic Christianity more into alignment with the Latin Church (the modern Catholic Church).
According to the annals of the Worcester Priory in England, "nothing memorable" happens in this year.^[6]