1161

This article is about the year 1161.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1158 1159 1160 – 1161 – 1162 1163 1164

1161 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1161 in poetry

1161 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1161 MCLXI
Ab urbe condita	1914
Armenian calendar	610 ԹՎ ՈԺ
Assyrian calendar	5911
Bengali calendar	568
Berber calendar	2111
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 2 – 8 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1705
Burmese calendar	523
Byzantine calendar	6669–6670
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3857 or 3797     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3858 or 3798
Coptic calendar	877–878
Discordian calendar	2327
Ethiopian calendar	1153–1154
Hebrew calendar	4921–4922
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1217–1218
- Shaka Samvat	1083–1084
- Kali Yuga	4262–4263
Holocene calendar	11161
Igbo calendar	161–162
Iranian calendar	539–540
Islamic calendar	555–557
Japanese calendar	Eiryaku 2 / Ōhō 1 (応保元年)
Julian calendar	1161 MCLXI
Korean calendar	3494
Minguo calendar	751 before ROC 民前751年
Seleucid era	1472/1473 AG
Thai solar calendar	1703–1704

Year 1161 (MCLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• The Battle of Tangdao (November 16) and Battle of Caishi (November 26–27) on the Yangtze river, during the Jin–Song Wars between the Jin dynasty and the Song dynasty in China, result in two pivotal Song naval victories.
• December 15 – Emperor Hailing of Jin is assassinated while on campaign. He is succeeded by Emperor Shizong.

Europe

• c. April – Bartholomew Iscanus becomes Bishop of Exeter in England.
• Godfrey Ua Raghallaigh, king of East Breifne in Ireland dies; his son Cathal succeeds him.
• Eric Jedvardsson's murderer Magnus Henriksen is himself murdered by Karl Sverkersson, who then becomes king of Sweden.
• A Muslim offensive against the young Portuguese kingdom reaches Almada.
• Cross of Euphrosyne, commissioned by Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk, is created by craftsman Lazar Bohsa. The cross later went missing during World War II and has not been recovered.

Births

• June 12 – Constance, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1201)
• September 20 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (d. 1181)
• date unknown
  • Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (d. 1185)
  • Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish bishop and saint (d. 1223)
  • Pope Innocent III (d. 1216)
  • Börte, Genghis Khan's wife (d.1230)

Deaths

• February 3 – King Inge I of Norway (b. 1135)
• April 18 – Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
• June 14 – Former Emperor Qinzong of Song (b. 1084)
• September 11 – Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
• November 23 – Adam, Abbot of Ebrach
• December 15 – Prince Hailing of Jin (b. 1122)
• date unknown
  • Hugh, archbishop of Palermo
  • Magnus Henriksen, pretender to the Swedish throne