1169

1169 (MCLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1169th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 169th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 12th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1160s decade. As of the start of 1169, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s  1140s  1150s  – 1160s –  1170s  1180s  1190s
Years:	1166 1167 1168 – 1169 – 1170 1171 1172

1169 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1169 MCLXIX
Ab urbe condita	1922
Armenian calendar	618 ԹՎ ՈԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	5919
Balinese saka calendar	1090–1091
Bengali calendar	576
Berber calendar	2119
English Regnal year	15 Hen. 2 – 16 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1713
Burmese calendar	531
Byzantine calendar	6677–6678
Chinese calendar	戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3865 or 3805     — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 3866 or 3806
Coptic calendar	885–886
Discordian calendar	2335
Ethiopian calendar	1161–1162
Hebrew calendar	4929–4930
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1225–1226
- Shaka Samvat	1090–1091
- Kali Yuga	4269–4270
Holocene calendar	11169
Igbo calendar	169–170
Iranian calendar	547–548
Islamic calendar	564–565
Japanese calendar	Nin'an 4 / Kaō 1 (嘉応元年)
Javanese calendar	1076–1077
Julian calendar	1169 MCLXIX
Korean calendar	3502
Minguo calendar	743 before ROC 民前743年
Nanakshahi calendar	−299
Seleucid era	1480/1481 AG
Thai solar calendar	1711–1712
Tibetan calendar	阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1295 or 914 or 142     — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 1296 or 915 or 143

Events

• Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din.
• Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev.
• Start of the conquest of Ireland. Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster.
• Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her great court in Poitiers where the Courts of Love flourished.