1170

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1170 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1170
MCLXX
Ab urbe condita1923
Armenian calendar619
ԹՎ ՈԺԹ
Assyrian calendar5920
Balinese saka calendar1091–1092
Bengali calendar577
Berber calendar2120
English Regnal year16 Hen. 2 – 17 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1714
Burmese calendar532
Byzantine calendar6678–6679
Chinese calendar己丑年 (Earth Ox)
3867 or 3660
    — to —
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
3868 or 3661
Coptic calendar886–887
Discordian calendar2336
Ethiopian calendar1162–1163
Hebrew calendar4930–4931
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1226–1227
 - Shaka Samvat1091–1092
 - Kali Yuga4270–4271
Holocene calendar11170
Igbo calendar170–171
Iranian calendar548–549
Islamic calendar565–566
Japanese calendarKaō 2
(嘉応2年)
Javanese calendar1077–1078
Julian calendar1170
MCLXX
Korean calendar3503
Minguo calendar742 before ROC
民前742年
Nanakshahi calendar−298
Seleucid era1481/1482 AG
Thai solar calendar1712–1713
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)

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

Events

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By place

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Levant

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  • 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

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Ireland

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Africa

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Asia

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By topic

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Folklore

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Religion

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  • 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]

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Deaths

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References

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  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.