1165

1165 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1165; MCLXV
Ab urbe condita	1918
Armenian calendar	614; ԹՎ ՈԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5915
Balinese saka calendar	1086–1087
Bengali calendar	571–572
Berber calendar	2115
English Regnal year	11 Hen. 2 – 12 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1709
Burmese calendar	527
Byzantine calendar	6673–6674
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey); 3862 or 3655; — to —; 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster); 3863 or 3656
Coptic calendar	881–882
Discordian calendar	2331
Ethiopian calendar	1157–1158
Hebrew calendar	4925–4926
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1221–1222
- Shaka Samvat	1086–1087
- Kali Yuga	4265–4266
Holocene calendar	11165
Igbo calendar	165–166
Iranian calendar	543–544
Islamic calendar	560–561
Japanese calendar	Chōkan 3 / Eiman 1; (永万元年)
Javanese calendar	1072–1073
Julian calendar	1165; MCLXV
Korean calendar	3498
Minguo calendar	747 before ROC; 民前747年
Nanakshahi calendar	−303
Seleucid era	1476/1477 AG
Thai solar calendar	1707–1708
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年; (male Wood-Monkey); 1291 or 910 or 138; — to —; 阴木鸡年; (female Wood-Rooster); 1292 or 911 or 139

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century; 12th century ; 13th century;
Decades:	1140s; 1150s; 1160s; 1170s; 1180s;
Years:	1162; 1163; 1164; 1165; 1166; 1167; 1168;

William I (the Lion) (c. 1142–1214)

Year 1165 (MCLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[edit | edit source]

Spring – Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos) makes an alliance with Venice against Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa), who takes an oath at the Diet of Würzburg to support Antipope Paschal III against Pope Alexander III.
Andronikos Komnenos, a cousin of Manuel I, escapes from prison at Constantinople. After passing through many dangers, he reaches Kiev and seeks refuge at the court of Prince Yaroslav Osmomysl.

Gerald the Fearless, Portuguese warrior and adventurer, seizes the city Évora by surprise. The same year (or soon after), he takes Cáceres, Trujillo, Montánchez, Moura, Monsaraz and Alconchel from the Almohads.
October 15 – Battle of Fahs al-Jullab: Almoravid forces defeat Ibn Mardanish, ruler of the Taifa of Murcia. His army is routed at a place called the "merchant field" near Alhama, in the valley of the Guadalentín.^[1]
Benjamin of Tudela, Spanish Jewish traveler, sets out on his journey from the northeast Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain), in what begins as a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.^[2]
Otto II (the Rich), margrave of Meissen, grants Leipzig city and market privileges. The city is located at the crossways of the Via Regia and Via Imperii trade routes.

King Owain ap Gruffydd (the Great) of Gwynedd forms an alliance with his nephew Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of Deheubarth, to challenge English rule. They drive the English forces out of Wales.
Battle of Crogen: King Henry II invades Wales, but is defeated and forced to retreat. After Welsh forces under Owain ap Gruffydd inflict an unknown number of casualties on the English army.
Henry II's marriage with Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine is effectively ended when she moves back to Aquitaine. Henry begins an affair with Rosamund Clifford.
December 9 – King Malcolm IV dies at Jedburgh after a 12-year reign and is succeeded by his brother William I (the Lion) as ruler of Scotland (until 1214).

September 5 – Emperor Nijō abdicates the throne and dies after a 7-year reign. He is succeeded by his 1-year-old son Rokujō as the 79th emperor of Japan.
In China the Jin Dynasty (Great Jin) and the Song Dynasty make a lasting peace (until 1205).

Eskil, Danish archbishop of Lund, appoints Fulco as the first Bishop of Estonia, marking the early beginning of the introduction of Christianity to the country. He will visit Estonia for the first time in 1169 or 1170.
Hildegard of Bingen, German Benedictine abbess, founds Eibingen Abbey on the opposite bank of the Rhine near Rüdesheim (approximate date).
The construction of Liuhe Pagoda (Six Harmonies Pagoda) in Hangzhou, China, is completed during the Song Dynasty.

^ Vallvé Bermejo, Joaquín (1972). "La división territorial en la España musulmana (II): la cora de "Tudmīr" (Murcia)". Al-Andalus, p. 171.
^ Shatzmiller, Joseph (1998). "Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and his Contemporaries", p. 338. ISBN 978-0-8020-0779-7.
^ "The Meccan Revelations". World Digital Library. April 6, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2013.

Gregorian calendar	1165 MCLXV
Ab urbe condita	1918
Armenian calendar	614 ԹՎ ՈԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	5915
Balinese saka calendar	1086–1087
Bengali calendar	571–572
Berber calendar	2115
English Regnal year	11 Hen. 2 – 12 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1709
Burmese calendar	527
Byzantine calendar	6673–6674
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 3862 or 3655 — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3863 or 3656
Coptic calendar	881–882
Discordian calendar	2331
Ethiopian calendar	1157–1158
Hebrew calendar	4925–4926
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1221–1222
- Shaka Samvat	1086–1087
- Kali Yuga	4265–4266
Holocene calendar	11165
Igbo calendar	165–166
Iranian calendar	543–544
Islamic calendar	560–561
Japanese calendar	Chōkan 3 / Eiman 1 (永万元年)
Javanese calendar	1072–1073
Julian calendar	1165 MCLXV
Korean calendar	3498
Minguo calendar	747 before ROC 民前747年
Nanakshahi calendar	−303
Seleucid era	1476/1477 AG
Thai solar calendar	1707–1708
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年 (male Wood-Monkey) 1291 or 910 or 138 — to — 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1292 or 911 or 139

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