1167

Events

  • Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed Daijo Daijin, chief minister of the government of Japan
  • Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily
  • Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund
  • Absalon fortifies Copenhagen
  • William Marshal, "the greatest knight that ever lived", is knighted
  • Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of León
  • Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt
  • William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre
  • May 29Battle of Legano, in which The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I
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