1163

Template:Use mdy dates Template:About year Template:Year nav Template:C12 year in topicYear 1163 (MCLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 19 – Council of Tours opens. Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Owain Gwynedd becomes partial ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales on the death of Gruffydd ap Rhys.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

• The Norwegian Law of Succession is introduced.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• 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.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Better source needed</ref>
• Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house, by abbot Ekkehard.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• The Thousand Pillar Temple is constructed by Rudra Deva in India.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

• August 19 – Ottokar IV of Styria (d. 1192)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, queen consort of England (d. 1217) (approximate date)
• Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (d. 1204)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Canute VI of Denmark (d. 1202)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent (d. 1224)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (d. 1181)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Ibn al-Qabisi, Iraqi grammarian and poet (d. 1235)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Deaths

• January 14 – King Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May – Abd al-Mu'min, founder of the Almohad Empire (b. 1094)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• August 10 – Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1089)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• date unknown – Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch (b. 1127) - or possibly early 1164<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>