1166
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1130s 1140s 1150s – 1160s – 1170s 1180s 1190s |
| Years: | 1163 1164 1165 – 1166 – 1167 1168 1169 |
| 1166 by topic | |
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| 1166 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1166 MCLXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1919 |
| Armenian calendar | 615 ԹՎ ՈԺԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5916 |
| Bengali calendar | 573 |
| Berber calendar | 2116 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Hen. 2 – 13 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1710 |
| Burmese calendar | 528 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6674–6675 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3862 or 3802 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3863 or 3803 |
| Coptic calendar | 882–883 |
| Discordian calendar | 2332 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1158–1159 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4926–4927 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1222–1223 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1088–1089 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4267–4268 |
| Holocene calendar | 11166 |
| Igbo calendar | 166–167 |
| Iranian calendar | 544–545 |
| Islamic calendar | 561–562 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiman 2 / Nin'an 1 (仁安元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1166 MCLXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3499 |
| Minguo calendar | 746 before ROC 民前746年 |
| Seleucid era | 1477/1478 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1708–1709 |
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Year 1166 (MCLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
- July – Henry II of England conquers Brittany, granting the territory to his son Geoffrey.[1]
- July 5 – First mention of the town of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria (in an ecclesiastical document).
- Henry II of England enacts the Assize of Clarendon, reforming the English law and defining the legal duties of sheriffs.[2]
- Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as Patriarch of Alexandria.
- Tribhuvanāditya comes to power in the Khmer empire following the assassination of Yasovarman II.
- Stefan Nemanja becomes Grand Župan of the Serbian Grand Principality.
- Henry the Lion has the first bronze statue (a heraldic lion) north of the Alps erected at Dankwarderode Castle.
- William Marshal, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted.
Births
- July 29 – Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
- December 24 – John of England (d. 1216)
- Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)
- William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)
Deaths
- May 7 – William I of Sicily
- Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend; per legend b. 1130)
- Abdul-Qadir Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyyah Sufi Tariqah (b. 1077)