1163
Year 1163 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
- March / April - 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.
- May 19 - Council of Tours opens. Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.
- Owain Gwynedd becomes partial ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales on the death of Gruffydd ap Rhys.
- The Norwegian Law of Succession is introduced.
- The Guanfuchang salt-fields in Hong Kong are first officially operated by the Song dynasty.
- Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house, by abbot Ekkehard.
- The Thousand Pillar Temple is constructed by Rudra Deva in India.
Births
- August 19 - Ottokar IV of Styria
- Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, queen consort of England
- Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia
- Canute VI of Denmark
- Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent
- As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria
- Ibn al-Qabisi, Iraqi grammarian and poet
Deaths
- January 14 - King Ladislaus [II of Hungary]
- February 10 - King Baldwin [III of Jerusalem]
- May - Abd al-Mu'min, founder of the Almohad Empire
- August 10 - Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk date unknown - Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch - or possibly early 1164