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Year 1163 (MCLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
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Events
- March / April (traditional date) – The first stone of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris is set by Pope Alexander III during the reign of Louis VII of France.[1][2][3][4][5]
- May 19 – Council of Tours opens. Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.[6][7]
- Owain Gwynedd becomes partial ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales on the death of Gruffydd ap Rhys.[8][9]
- Silesian duchies accept the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire.[10][11][12]
- The Norwegian Law of Succession is introduced.[13][14][15]
- The Guanfuchang salt-fields (官富場) in Hong Kong (modern-day To Kwa Wan, Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong and Lam Tin districts) are first officially operated by the Song dynasty.[16]
- Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house, by abbot Ekkehard.[17][18]
- The Thousand Pillar Temple is constructed by Rudra Deva in India.[19][20]
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Births
- August 19 – Ottokar IV of Styria (d. 1192)[21][22]
- Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, queen consort of England (d. 1217) (approximate date)
- Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (d. 1204)[23]
- Canute VI of Denmark (d. 1202)[24][25]
- Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent (d. 1224)[26][27][28]
- As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (d. 1181)[29][30]
- Ibn al-Qabisi, Iraqi grammarian and poet (d. 1235)[31]
Deaths
- January 14 – King Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)[32][33][34]
- February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)[35][36][37]
- May – Abd al-Mu'min, founder of the Almohad Empire (b. 1094)[38][39][40]
- August 10 – Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1089)[41][42][43]
- date unknown – Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch (b. 1127) - or possibly early 1164[44][45]
References
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