1169

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1130s 1140s 1150s – 1160s – 1170s 1180s 1190s
Years:	1166 1167 1168 – 1169 – 1170 1171 1172

1169 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1169 in poetry

Events

Nur ad-Din Zangi invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din, as well as vizier of Cairo.
Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev and makes Vladimir the capital.
The conquest of Ireland begins. Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster.
Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her great court in Poitiers, where the Courts of Love flourish.

January 2—Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)
July 9—Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian
Stephen du Perche, chancellor of Sicily and archbishop of Palermo