1172

This article is about the year 1172.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1140s  1150s  1160s  – 1170s –  1180s  1190s  1200s
Years:	1169 1170 1171 – 1172 – 1173 1174 1175

1172 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1172 in poetry

1172 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1172 MCLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1925
Armenian calendar	621 ԹՎ ՈԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	5922
Bengali calendar	579
Berber calendar	2122
English Regnal year	18 Hen. 2 – 19 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1716
Burmese calendar	534
Byzantine calendar	6680–6681
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 3868 or 3808     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 3869 or 3809
Coptic calendar	888–889
Discordian calendar	2338
Ethiopian calendar	1164–1165
Hebrew calendar	4932–4933
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1228–1229
- Shaka Samvat	1094–1095
- Kali Yuga	4273–4274
Holocene calendar	11172
Igbo calendar	172–173
Iranian calendar	550–551
Islamic calendar	567–568
Japanese calendar	Jōan 2 (承安２年)
Julian calendar	1172 MCLXXII
Korean calendar	3505
Minguo calendar	740 before ROC 民前740年
Seleucid era	1483/1484 AG
Thai solar calendar	1714–1715

Year 1172 (MCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• April/May – Béla returns to Hungary where he is acclaimed king.
• Richard Lionheart becomes Duke of Aquitaine (later King Richard I of England).
• Henry II of England and Humbert III, Count of Savoy agree to wed their respective heirs, John of England and Alicia. The alliance never occurs because Henry's elder heir, Henry the Young King, becomes jealous over the castles which the elder Henry promises to the couple and stages a rebellion which will take the elder Henry two years to put down. By that point, Alicia has died.
• Alberto di Morra is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches, where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket.
• The Synod of Cashel ends the Celtic Christian system and brings them under Rome.
• A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades, this event marks the end of the pacification of the lands recently conquered by the Catalans.

Births

• July – Baldwin I of Constantinople (d. 1205)
• date unknown
  • Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester (d. 1232)
  • Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke (d. 1220)
  • Louis I, Count of Blois (d. 1205)
  • Fujiwara Moroie, last of the Japanese Fujiwara Regents (d. 1238)
• probable
  • Isabella of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem 1190/1192–1205 (d. 1205)

Deaths

• March 4 – King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
• June 20 – William III, Count of Ponthieu (b. c. 1095)
• December 23 – Ugo Ventimiglia, cardinal
• date unknown
  • Il-Arslan, Khwarazm Shah
  • Douce II, Countess of Provence (b. 1165)
  • Acharya Hemachandra, Indian mathematician, philosopher and historian (b. 1089)