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| Centuries: | 11th century - 12th century - 13th century |
| Decades: | 1140s 1150s 1160s - 1170s - 1180s 1190s 1200s |
| Years: | 1167 1168 1169 - 1170 - 1171 1172 1173 |
| 1170 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1170 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1170 MCLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1923 |
| Armenian calendar | 619 ԹՎ ՈԺԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -674 – -673 |
| Berber calendar | 2120 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1714 |
| Burmese calendar | 532 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6678 – 6679 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年十二月十三日 (3806/3866-12-13) — to —
庚寅年十一月廿二日(3807/3867-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 886 – 887 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1162 – 1163 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4930 – 4931 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1225 – 1226 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1092 – 1093 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4271 – 4272 |
| Holocene calendar | 11170 |
| Iranian calendar | 548 – 549 |
| Islamic calendar | 565 – 566 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3503 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1713 |
Events
- Henry II of England wishes aloud that Thomas Becket be destroyed.
- December 29 — Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral.
- The city of Dublin is captured by the Normans.
- According to folklore, the Welsh prince Madoc sailes to North America and founds a colony.
- Estimation: Fes in the Almohad Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
- The Danes attack Estonia.
- The palace guards massacre the civil officials at the Korean court and place a new king on the throne. The coup leaders scrap the privileges that have kept the aristocrats in power and appoint themselves to top posts.
Births
- Eustace the Monk, French pirate (d. 1217)
- Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of Philip II of France (d. 1190)
- Mukhali, general of Genghis Khan
- Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)
- Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241)
- Leonardo of Pisa (Leonardo Fibonacci) (d. 1250)
Deaths
- January 22 — Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (b. 1113)
- November 18 — Albert I of Brandenburg (b. c. 1100)
- November 28 — Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (b. c. 1100)
- December 29 — Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. c. 1118)
- Al-Mustanjid, Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad
- Ruben II of Armenia (b. 1160)
- Mstislav II of Kiev
- Eliezer ben Nathan, Jewish poet and writer (b. 1090)
- Eudes, Viscount of Porhoet, co-ruler of the duchy of Brittany
