1170

1170 (MCLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1170th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 170th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 12th century, and the 1st year of the 1170s decade. As of the start of 1170, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

1170 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1170 MCLXX
Ab urbe condita	1923
Armenian calendar	619 ԹՎ ՈԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	5920
Balinese saka calendar	1091–1092
Bengali calendar	577
Berber calendar	2120
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 2 – 17 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1714
Burmese calendar	532
Byzantine calendar	6678–6679
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3866 or 3806     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 3867 or 3807
Coptic calendar	886–887
Discordian calendar	2336
Ethiopian calendar	1162–1163
Hebrew calendar	4930–4931
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1226–1227
- Shaka Samvat	1091–1092
- Kali Yuga	4270–4271
Holocene calendar	11170
Igbo calendar	170–171
Iranian calendar	548–549
Islamic calendar	565–566
Japanese calendar	Kaō 2 (嘉応２年)
Javanese calendar	1077–1078
Julian calendar	1170 MCLXX
Korean calendar	3503
Minguo calendar	742 before ROC 民前742年
Nanakshahi calendar	−298
Seleucid era	1481/1482 AG
Thai solar calendar	1712–1713
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Earth-Ox) 1296 or 915 or 143     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Tiger) 1297 or 916 or 144

Births

• April 23 – Isabelle of Hainaut
• August 8 – Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)

Deaths

• December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated) (b. c. 1118)