1165

This article is about the year 1165.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1162 1163 1164 – 1165 – 1166 1167 1168

1165 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1165 in poetry

1165 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1165 MCLXV
Ab urbe condita	1918
Armenian calendar	614 ԹՎ ՈԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5915
Bengali calendar	572
Berber calendar	2115
English Regnal year	11 Hen. 2 – 12 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1709
Burmese calendar	527
Byzantine calendar	6673–6674
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3861 or 3801     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3862 or 3802
Coptic calendar	881–882
Discordian calendar	2331
Ethiopian calendar	1157–1158
Hebrew calendar	4925–4926
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1221–1222
- Shaka Samvat	1087–1088
- Kali Yuga	4266–4267
Holocene calendar	11165
Igbo calendar	165–166
Iranian calendar	543–544
Islamic calendar	560–561
Japanese calendar	Chōkan 3 / Eiman 1 (永万元年)
Julian calendar	1165 MCLXV
Korean calendar	3498
Minguo calendar	747 before ROC 民前747年
Seleucid era	1476/1477 AG
Thai solar calendar	1707–1708

Year 1165 (MCLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• November 23 – Pope Alexander III enters Rome.
• December 9 – William the Lion succeeds his brother Malcolm IV as king of Scotland; he will reign until his death in 1214.
• Emperor Rokujō ascends to the throne of Japan at the age of one.
• Byzantine Emperor Andronicus I escapes from prison.
• Henry II of England begins an affair with Rosamund Clifford.
• Henry II of England invades Wales but is defeated at the Battle of Crogen and forced to retreat.
• The Muslims take Caesarea Philippi from the Crusaders.
• Leipzig gains city and market privileges.
• The town of Pistoia obtains the appellation of "imperio fidelissima" from Frederick I as faithful of the emperor.
• Construction of the Liuhe Pagoda of Hangzhou, China, is completed in this year during the Song Dynasty.
• The adventurer Gerald the Fearless, vassal of the king of Portugal, seizes the city Evora by surprise. The same year (or soon after), he takes Cacéres, Trujillo, Montánchez, Lobon, Moura, Monsaraz and Alconchel.
• The Archbishop of Lund appoints Fulco as the first Bishop of Estonia, marking the early beginning of gradual introduction of Christianity in Estonia.

Births

• August 21 – King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
• October – Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, daughter of Henry II of England (d. 1199)
• November – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1197)
• Ibn Arabi, Sufi philosopher (d. 1240)
• Henry I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1235)
• Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier (d. 1229)
• Phillipe de Plessis, Grand Master of the Knights Templar (d. 1209)

Deaths

• February 7 – Marshal Stephen of Armenia
• April 11 – King Stephen IV of Hungary
• September 5 – Emperor Nijō of Japan (b. 1143)
• December 9 – King Malcolm IV of Scotland (b. 1141)
• date unknown
  • Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi, Arab philosopher and physicist (b. 1080)
  • Sibylla of Anjou, Countess of Flanders (b. c. 1112)