Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Decades: 1110s 1120s 1130s 1140s 1150s - 1160s - 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s 1210s
Years: 1162 1163 1164 1165 1166 - 1167 - 1168 1169 1170 1171 1172
Events
- Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed Daijyo Daijin, chief minister of the government of Japan
- Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily
- Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund
- Absalon fortifies Copenhagen
- William Marshal, "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted
- Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon
- Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt
- William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre
- September 10 - Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, mother of Henry II of England
- Abraham ibn Ezra, Jewish writer