1159

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s 1130s 1140s – 1150s – 1160s 1170s 1180s
Years:	1156 1157 1158 – 1159 – 1160 1161 1162

1159 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1159 in poetry

1159 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1159 MCLIX
Ab urbe condita	1912
Armenian calendar	608 ԹՎ ՈԸ
Assyrian calendar	5909
Bengali calendar	566
Berber calendar	2109
English Regnal year	5 Hen. 2 – 6 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1703
Burmese calendar	521
Byzantine calendar	6667–6668
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3855 or 3795 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3856 or 3796
Coptic calendar	875–876
Discordian calendar	2325
Ethiopian calendar	1151–1152
Hebrew calendar	4919–4920
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1215–1216
- Shaka Samvat	1081–1082
- Kali Yuga	4260–4261
Holocene calendar	11159
Igbo calendar	159–160
Iranian calendar	537–538
Islamic calendar	553–554
Japanese calendar	Hōgen 4 / Heiji 1 (平治元年)
Julian calendar	1159 MCLIX
Korean calendar	3492
Minguo calendar	753 before ROC 民前753年
Seleucid era	1470/1471 AG
Thai solar calendar	1701–1702

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Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

In the Roman Catholic Church, cardinals are given the right to elect the Pope. Prior to this, the pope was elected by the clergy and congregation of the church.
September 7 – Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV as the 170th pope.
The Heiji Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
Tunis is reconquered from the Normans by the Almohad caliphs.