1168

Year 1168 (MCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1168 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1168
MCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita1921
Armenian calendar617
ԹՎ ՈԺԷ
Assyrian calendar5918
Balinese saka calendar1089–1090
Bengali calendar575
Berber calendar2118
English Regnal year14 Hen. 2  15 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1712
Burmese calendar530
Byzantine calendar6676–6677
Chinese calendar丁亥(Fire Pig)
3864 or 3804
     to 
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3865 or 3805
Coptic calendar884–885
Discordian calendar2334
Ethiopian calendar1160–1161
Hebrew calendar4928–4929
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1224–1225
 - Shaka Samvat1089–1090
 - Kali Yuga4268–4269
Holocene calendar11168
Igbo calendar168–169
Iranian calendar546–547
Islamic calendar563–564
Japanese calendarNin'an 3
(仁安3年)
Javanese calendar1075–1076
Julian calendar1168
MCLXVIII
Korean calendar3501
Minguo calendar744 before ROC
民前744年
Nanakshahi calendar−300
Seleucid era1479/1480 AG
Thai solar calendar1710–1711
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
1294 or 913 or 141
     to 
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
1295 or 914 or 142
King Valdemar I (1131–1182)


Events

Levant

  • Late Summer King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and Byzantine emperor Manuel I (Komnenos), negotiate an alliance against Fatimid-Egypt. Archbishop William of Tyre is among the ambassadors sent to Constantinople, to finalize the treaty.
  • Autumn William IV, count of Nevers, arrives in Palestine with a contingent of elite knights. In Jerusalem he is present during a council with Amalric and other nobles to decide for an expedition to Egypt.
  • October 20 Amalric I invades Egypt again from Ascalon, sacking Bilbeis and threatening Cairo. In November, a Crusader fleet sails up the Nile and arrives in Lake Manzala, sacking the town of Tanis.[1]
  • Nur al-Din, Zangid ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo, sends an expedition under General Shirkuh to Egypt on request of the Fatimid caliph Al-Adid. He offers him a third of the land, and fiefs for his generals.[2]

Egypt

  • December 22 Afraid that the Egyptian capital Fustat (modern-day Old Cairo) will be captured by Crusader forces, its Fatimid vizier, Shawar, orders the city set afire. The capital burns for 54 days.

Europe

Asia

Religion

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 309–310. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 311. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. Hywell Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 126. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  4. Vigueur, Jean-Claude Maire (2010). L'autre Rome: Une histoire des Romains à l'époque communale (XIIe-XIVe siècle). Paris: Tallandier. p. 314.
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