1170

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1170 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1170
MCLXX
Ab urbe condita 1923
Armenian calendar 619
ԹՎ ՈԺԹ
Assyrian calendar 5920
Balinese saka calendar 1091–1092
Bengali calendar 576–577
Berber calendar 2120
English Regnal year 16  Hen. 2   17  Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar 1714
Burmese calendar 532
Byzantine calendar 6678–6679
Chinese calendar 己丑年 (Earth  Ox)
3867 or 3660
     to 
庚寅年 (Metal  Tiger)
3868 or 3661
Coptic calendar 886–887
Discordian calendar 2336
Ethiopian calendar 1162–1163
Hebrew calendar 4930–4931
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1226–1227
 - Shaka Samvat 1091–1092
 - Kali Yuga 4270–4271
Holocene calendar 11170
Igbo calendar 170–171
Iranian calendar 548–549
Islamic calendar 565–566
Japanese calendar Kaō 2
(嘉応2年)
Javanese calendar 1077–1078
Julian calendar 1170
MCLXX
Korean calendar 3503
Minguo calendar 742 before ROC
民前742年
Nanakshahi calendar −298
Seleucid era 1481/1482 AG
Thai solar calendar 1712–1713
Tibetan calendar 阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
1296 or 915 or 143
     to 
阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1297 or 916 or 144
Murder of Thomas Becket (c. 1200) Thomas Becket Murder.JPG
Murder of Thomas Becket (c. 1200)

Year 1170 ( MCLXX ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

By place

Levant

  • Winter Egyptian forces, led by Saladin, invade the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and besiege Darum on the Mediterranean coast. Its defenses are weak, and though Saladin has no siege engines with him, the fall seems imminent. King Amalric I withdraws his Templar garrison from Gaza, to assist him in defending Darum. Saladin raises the siege and marches on Gaza, where he captures the lower town (despite the stiff resistance ordered by Lord Miles of Plancy), and massacres the inhabitants. However, the citadel is too strong for Saladin, and he is forced to retreat to Egypt. [1]
  • Saladin sends an Egyptian squadron up the Gulf of Aqaba, which captures the Crusader outpost of Aila, at the head of the Gulf. [2]

England

Ireland

Africa

Asia

By topic

Folklore

Religion

  • Peter Waldo, a French merchant of Lyon, starts the popular religious movement of the "Poor Men of Lyon", or Waldenses. [8]
  • Pope Alexander III addresses a series of letters to the backward Swedish church. He wants to impose the strict canonical requirements on the Swedes, that is, the ecclesiastical legal system. Due to being Christianized in 1050, Sweden is having trouble to fully adapt to the Catholicism that is preached and acted on in Europe. [9]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 317–318. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 318. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. Warren, W. L. Henry II. pp. 506–9.
  4. Frank Barlow (1986). Thomas Becket, p. 236. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   978-0-297-79189-8.
  5. Foster, R. F. (1989). The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland . Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-822970-4.
  6. "Largest Cities Through History". About.com Geography. Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2006.
  7. Ambraseys, Nicholas N. (2004). "The 12th century seismic paroxysm in the Middle East: a historical perspective" (PDF). Annals of Geophysics. 47 (2–3). Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia: 733, 738, 745, 750. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022.
  8. Hywell Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 126. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
  9. Franklin D. Scott, Sweden: The Nation's History (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1977) p. 58.