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1169 (one thousand one hundred sixty-ninth) year according to the Julian calendar is a non-leap year starting on Wednesday . This is 1169 year of our era , 169 year of 2 millenniums , 69 year of the XII century , 9 year of the 7th decade of the XII century, 10 year of the 1160s .
Events
Capture of Kiev (1169) Miniature from the Radziwill Chronicle
- The return of Dermot McMurroch to Ireland .
- The Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland began .
- King of Portugal Afonso I the Great was captured by Fernando II of Leon .
- March 12 - the capture and sacking of Kiev by an army of 11 Russian princes: " And speed in Kiev for all people is moaning and tight, and unhappable grief. " The campaign was organized by Vladimir-Suzdal Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky .
- On August 15, the "monastery of the Thessalonians", later called "Russik", was transferred to the Russian monks of Mount Athos .
- The Polovtsian attack on Polonnoye and Simoch.
- The troops sent by the ruler of Damascus, Nur al-Din Zangi , led by Shirkuh, forced the King of Jerusalem Amory I to retreat from Cairo. Salah ad-Din killed the Cairo vizier Shavar, and after the death of Uncle Shirkuh himself became a vizier, after which he crushed the riot of African mercenaries in the city.
- 1169-1180 - 80th Emperor of Japan Takakura (1161-81).
- April 1169 - April 1171 - Years of Khao . ( Japan ).
- February 4 - earthquake in Sicily ( Italy ; Syracuse , Calabria ); about 16,000 dead [1] .
Born
See also: Category: Born in 1169
Died
See also: Category: Deaths in 1169
- John IV (Metropolitan of Kiev)
- Blanchfort, Bertrand de
See also
► 1169
Notes
- ↑ February 4, 1169 earthquake. (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment September 3, 2011. Archived March 6, 2016.