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Year 1166 (MCLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • July – Henry II of England conquers Brittany, granting the territory to his son Geoffrey.
  • July 5 – First mention of the town of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria (in an ecclesiastical document).
  • Henry II of England enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming the English law and defining the legal duties of sheriffs.
  • Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as Patriarch of Alexandria.
  • Tribhuvanāditya comes to power in the Khmer empire following the assassination of Yasovarman II.
  • Stefan Nemanja becomes Grand Župan of the Grand Principality of Serbia.
  • Henry the Lion has the first bronze statue (a heraldic lion) north of the Alps erected at Dankwarderode Castle.
  • William Marshal, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted.

    • Births

  • July 29 – Henry II, Count of Champagne (d. 1197)
  • December 24 or 1167 – John, King of England (d. 1216)
  • Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)
  • Prithviraj Chauhan of India (d. 1192)
  • William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)

    • Deaths

  • May 7 – William I of Sicily
  • Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend; per legend b. 1130)
  • Abdul-Qadir Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyyah Sufi Tariqah (b. 1077)

    • References

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