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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century - 12th century - 13th century |
| Decades: | 1120s 1130s 1140s - 1150s - 1160s 1170s 1180s |
| Years: | 1156 1157 1158 - 1159 - 1160 1161 1162 |
| 1159 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1159 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1159 MCLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1912 |
| Armenian calendar | 608 ԹՎ ՈԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -685 – -684 |
| Berber calendar | 2109 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1703 |
| Burmese calendar | 521 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6667 – 6668 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年十二月初十日 (3795/3855-12-10) — to —
己卯年十一月二十日(3796/3856-11-20) |
| Coptic calendar | 875 – 876 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1151 – 1152 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4919 – 4920 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1214 – 1215 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1081 – 1082 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4260 – 4261 |
| Holocene calendar | 11159 |
| Iranian calendar | 537 – 538 |
| Islamic calendar | 553 – 554 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3492 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1702 |
Events
- In the Roman Catholic Church, cardinals are given the right to elect the Pope. Prior to this, the pope was elected by the clergy and congregation of the church.
- September 7 — Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV as the 170th pope.
- The Heiji Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
- Tunis is reconquered from the Normans by the Almohad caliphs.
Births
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (d. 1189)
Deaths
- May 30 — Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
- September 1 — Pope Adrian IV (b. c. 1100)
- October 11 — William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)
- Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (b. 1110s)
- Joscelin II, Count of Edessa
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