1161

1161 (MCLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1161st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 161st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 12th century, and the 2nd year of the 1160s decade. As of the start of 1161, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1161 MCLXI
Ab urbe condita	1914
Armenian calendar	610 ԹՎ ՈԺ
Assyrian calendar	5911
Balinese saka calendar	1082–1083
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	1082–1083
- Kali Yuga	4261–4262
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)
Javanese calendar	1067–1068
Julian calendar	1161 MCLXI
Korean calendar	3494
Minguo calendar	751 before ROC 民前751年
Nanakshahi calendar	−307
Seleucid era	1472/1473 AG
Thai solar calendar	1703–1704
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 1287 or 906 or 134     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1288 or 907 or 135

Events

• Bartholomew Iscanus becomes Bishop of Exeter.