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Year 1162 (MCLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • The Almohad emir, Abd al-Mu'min, prepares a gigantic fleet of some four hundred ships to invade Spain. He dies the following year before the fleet is completed.

    • Asia

  • July 24 – Emperor Gaozong abdicates to Emperor Xiaozong.
  • July 25 – Emperor Xiaozong announces he will posthumously rehabilitate Yue Fei.
  • The Beisi Pagoda of Song Dynasty China is completed.

    • Europe

  • June 3 – Thomas Becket is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
  • July 15 – Ladislaus II of Hungary is declared King of Hungary.
  • Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa seizes and destroys Milan, scattering its inhabitants among four villages.

    • Births

  • October 13 – Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (d. 1214)
  • Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi traveler and writer (d. 1231)
  • Fujiwara no Teika, Japanese writer (d. 1241)
  • Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (d. 1206)
  • Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician (d. 1183)
  • Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (d. 1218)
  • Genghis Khan, Great Khan and founder of the Mongol Empire (d. 1227)

    • Deaths

  • June 27 or September 27 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
  • July 7 – King Haakon II of Norway
  • August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (b. c. 1113)
  • Iziaslav III of Kiev
  • Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (b. 1090)

    • References

    1162 Wikipedia
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