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