1162

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

• June 3 — Thomas Becket is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• July 15 — Ladislaus II of Hungary is declared King of Hungary.
• Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa seizes and destroys Milan, scattering its inhabitants among four villages.

[edit] Asia

• July 24 — Emperor Gaozong abdicates to Emperor Xiaozong.
• July 25 — Emperor Xiaozong announces he will posthumously rehabilitate Yue Fei.
• The Beisi Pagoda of Song Dynasty China is completed.

[edit] Births

• October 13 — Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
• Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveler and writer (d. 1231)
• Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (d. 1227)
• Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (d. 1206)
• Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician (d. 1183)
• Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (d. 1218)

[edit] Deaths

• February 10 — King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• June 27 — Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• July 7 — King Haakon II of Norway
• August 6 — Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c. 1113)
• Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (b. 1101)
• Iziaslav III of Kiev
• Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (b. 1090)