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Gregorian calendar | 1159 MCLIX |
Ab urbe condita | 1912 |
Armenian calendar | 608 ԹՎ ՈԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 5909 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1080–1081 |
Bengali calendar | 566 |
Berber calendar | 2109 |
English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 2 – 6 Hen. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 1703 |
Burmese calendar | 521 |
Byzantine calendar | 6667–6668 |
Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3855 or 3795 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3856 or 3796 |
Coptic calendar | 875–876 |
Discordian calendar | 2325 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1151–1152 |
Hebrew calendar | 4919–4920 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1215–1216 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1080–1081 |
- Kali Yuga | 4259–4260 |
Holocene calendar | 11159 |
Igbo calendar | 159–160 |
Iranian calendar | 537–538 |
Islamic calendar | 553–554 |
Japanese calendar | Hōgen 4 / Heiji 1 (平治元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1065–1066 |
Julian calendar | 1159 MCLIX |
Korean calendar | 3492 |
Minguo calendar | 753 before ROC 民前753年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −309 |
Seleucid era | 1470/1471 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1701–1702 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1285 or 904 or 132 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1286 or 905 or 133 |
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Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- September 7 – Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope.
- The Heiji Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
- Tunis is reconquered from the Normans, by the Almohad caliphs.
- (Approximate date): Churchman Richard FitzNeal is appointed Lord High Treasurer in England, in charge of Henry II of England's Exchequer, an office he will hold for almost 40 years.
Births
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general (d. 1189)
Deaths
- May 30 – Wladislaus II, the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
- August 29 – Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine Empress (b. 1110s)
- September 1 – Pope Adrian IV (b. c. 1100)
- October 11 – William of Blois, Count of Boulogne and Earl of Surrey (b. c. 1137)
- Joscelin II, Count of Edessa
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