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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s 1140s 1150s – 1160s – 1170s 1180s 1190s
Years:	1159 1160 1161 – 1162 – 1163 1164 1165

Events

June 3 – Thomas Becket named Archbishop of Canterbury.
July 15 – Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.
July 24 – Emperor Gaozong abdicated to Emperor Xiaozong.
July 25 – Emperor Xiaozong said to restore Yue Fei after his death.

Births

October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)
Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveller and writer
Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (died 1227)
Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (died 1206)
Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician
Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (died 1218)

Deaths

February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
June 27 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
July 7 – Haakon II of Norway
August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (born 1101)
Iziaslav III of Kiev
Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (born 1090)

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