1164
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Events

• Count Henry I of Champagne marries Marie de Champagne.
• Uppsala is recognized as the seat of the Swedish metropolitan.
• Antipope Paschal III is elected by cardinals supporting Frederick Barbarossa.
• Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf.
• Archbishop Rainald of Dassel brings relics of the Magi from Milan to Cologne.
• Henry II of England insists that everyone in the kingdom, including clerics, be subject to the royal courts.
• Thomas Becket contends with Henry II, then leaves England to solicit support from the Pope and the King of France.
• The city of Tver is first mentioned in written records.

Births

• September 21 — Sancha of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VII of Castile (d. 1208)
• December 28 — Emperor Rokujō of Japan (d. 1176)

Deaths

• April 20 — Antipope Victor IV
• 19 May — Saint Bashnouna, Egyptian saint and martyr
• September 14 — Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)
• December 31 — Margrave Ottokar III of Styria
• Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich of Novgorod-Seversky
• Fujiwara no Tadamichi, Japanese regent (b. 1097)
• Somerled, Lord of the Isles