1162

1162 (MCLXII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1162nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 162nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 12th century, and the 3rd year of the 1160s decade. As of the start of 1162, 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:	1159 1160 1161 – 1162 – 1163 1164 1165

1162 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1162 MCLXII
Ab urbe condita	1915
Armenian calendar	611 ԹՎ ՈԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	5912
Balinese saka calendar	1083–1084
Bengali calendar	569
Berber calendar	2112
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 2 – 9 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1706
Burmese calendar	524
Byzantine calendar	6670–6671
Chinese calendar	辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3858 or 3798     — to — 壬午年 (Water Horse) 3859 or 3799
Coptic calendar	878–879
Discordian calendar	2328
Ethiopian calendar	1154–1155
Hebrew calendar	4922–4923
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1218–1219
- Shaka Samvat	1083–1084
- Kali Yuga	4262–4263
Holocene calendar	11162
Igbo calendar	162–163
Iranian calendar	540–541
Islamic calendar	557–558
Japanese calendar	Ōhō 2 (応保２年)
Javanese calendar	1068–1069
Julian calendar	1162 MCLXII
Korean calendar	3495
Minguo calendar	750 before ROC 民前750年
Nanakshahi calendar	−306
Seleucid era	1473/1474 AG
Thai solar calendar	1704–1705
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 1288 or 907 or 135     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 1289 or 908 or 136

Events

• June 3 – Thomas Becket named Archbishop of Canterbury.
• July 15 – Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.
• July 24 – Emperor Gaozong abdicated to Emperor Xiaozong.
• July 25 – Emperor Xiaozong said to restore Yue Fei after his death.

Births

• October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)
• Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveller and writer
• Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (died 1227)
• Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (died 1206)
• Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician
• Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (died 1218)

Deaths

• February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
• June 27 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
• July 7 – Haakon II of Norway
• August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
• Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (born 1101)
• Iziaslav III of Kiev
• Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (born 1090)