Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 1159 MCLIX |
Ab urbe condita | 1912 |
Armenian calendar | 608 ԹՎ ՈԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 5909 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1080–1081 |
Bengali calendar | 566 |
Berber calendar | 2109 |
English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 2 – 6 Hen. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 1703 |
Burmese calendar | 521 |
Byzantine calendar | 6667–6668 |
Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3856 or 3649 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3857 or 3650 |
Coptic calendar | 875–876 |
Discordian calendar | 2325 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1151–1152 |
Hebrew calendar | 4919–4920 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1215–1216 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1080–1081 |
- Kali Yuga | 4259–4260 |
Holocene calendar | 11159 |
Igbo calendar | 159–160 |
Iranian calendar | 537–538 |
Islamic calendar | 553–554 |
Japanese calendar | Hōgen 4 / Heiji 1 (平治元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1065–1066 |
Julian calendar | 1159 MCLIX |
Korean calendar | 3492 |
Minguo calendar | 753 before ROC 民前753年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −309 |
Seleucid era | 1470/1471 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1701–1702 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1285 or 904 or 132 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 1286 or 905 or 133 |
In September 1159 Pope Adrian IV died, and a double election was made to the Papacy. The imperialist faction chose Octavian, cardinal-priest of St. Cecilia, who took the title of Victor IV, and the church party Roland, the chancellor, who became known as Alexander III.
Wars, beginning with the Hogen rebellion of 1156 and the Heiji rebellion of 1159, occurred in rapid succession, bringing confusion and chaos to the people.
The author of the Liber Eliensis indicates that Richard was appointed in 1159, during the preparations for the Toulouse campaign
Minamoto no Yoshitsune, or Gen Gikei as his name is in Sino-Japanese pronunciation, was born in 1159 as a half brother of Minamoto no Yoritomo
Within the decade of his birth Henry's father died, and Henry's elder half-brother Władysław ii Wygnaniec (the exile [1105-1159]) ascended the Polish throne.
About the end of the year 1159 the Empress Irene, born Bertha of Sulzbach, had died leaving only a daughter behind her.
In 1159 William "Longsword", count of Boulogne, earl of Warenne by right of his wife, the son of King Stephen of England and his wife Matilda of Boulogne, died without issue.