1159

Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

1159 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1159 MCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1912
Armenian calendar	608 ԹՎ ՈԸ
Assyrian calendar	5909
Balinese saka calendar	1080–1081
Bengali calendar	565–566
Berber calendar	2109
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 2 – 6 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1703
Burmese calendar	521
Byzantine calendar	6667–6668
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3856 or 3649     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3857 or 3650
Coptic calendar	875–876
Discordian calendar	2325
Ethiopian calendar	1151–1152
Hebrew calendar	4919–4920
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1215–1216
- Shaka Samvat	1080–1081
- Kali Yuga	4259–4260
Holocene calendar	11159
Igbo calendar	159–160
Iranian calendar	537–538
Islamic calendar	553–554
Japanese calendar	Hōgen 4 / Heiji 1 (平治元年)
Javanese calendar	1065–1066
Julian calendar	1159 MCLIX
Korean calendar	3492
Minguo calendar	753 before ROC 民前753年
Nanakshahi calendar	−309
Seleucid era	1470/1471 AG
Thai solar calendar	1701–1702
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1285 or 904 or 132     — to — ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Earth-Hare) 1286 or 905 or 133

Events

• September 7 – Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope.^[1][2][3]
• Taira no Kiyomori leaves Kyōto on a personal pilgrimage, giving Fujiwara no Nobuyori and his Minamoto allies the perfect chance to stage an uprising.^[4][5][6]
• Tunis is reconquered from the Normans, by the Almohad caliphs.^[7][8][9]
• (Approximate date): Churchman Richard FitzNeal is appointed Lord High Treasurer in England, in charge of Henry II of England's Exchequer, an office he will hold for almost 40 years.^[10][11][12]

Births

• Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (d. 1189)^[13][14][15]

Deaths

• May 30 – Wladislaus II, the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)^[16][17]
• August 29 – Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (b. 1110s)^[18][19]
• September 1 – Pope Adrian IV (b. c. 1100)^[20][21][22]
• October 11 – William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)^[23][24]
• Joscelin II, Count of Edessa^[25][26][27]