1165

1165 in various
AG
Thai solar calendar	1707–1708
Tibetan calendar	阳木猴年; (male Wood-Monkey); 1291 or 910 or 138; — to —; 阴木鸡年; (female Wood-Rooster); 1292 or 911 or 139

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century; 12th century ; 13th century;
Decades:	1140s; 1150s; 1160s ; 1170s; 1180s;
Years:	1162; 1163; 1164; 1165 ; 1166; 1167; 1168;

Year 1165 (MCLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Spring – Emperor
Frederick I (Barbarossa), who takes an oath at the Diet of Würzburg to support Antipope Paschal III against Pope Alexander III
.

Gerald the Fearless, Portuguese warrior and adventurer, seizes the city Évora by surprise. The same year (or soon after), he takes Cáceres, Trujillo, Montánchez, Moura, Monsaraz and Alconchel from the Almohads.
October 15 – Battle of Fahs al-Jullab: Almohads forces defeat Ibn Mardanish, ruler of the Taifa of Murcia. His army is routed at a place called the "merchant field" near Alhama, in the valley of the Guadalentín.^[1]
Benjamin of Tudela, Spanish Jewish traveler, sets out on his journey from the northeast Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain), in what begins as a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.^[2]
Otto II (the Rich), margrave of Meissen, grants Leipzig city and market privileges. The city is located at the crossways of the Via Regia and Via Imperii trade routes.

King Owain ap Gruffydd (the Great) of Gwynedd forms an alliance with his nephew Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of Deheubarth, to challenge English rule. They drive the English forces out of Wales.
Battle of Crogen: King Henry II invades Wales, but is defeated and forced to retreat. After Welsh forces under Owain ap Gruffydd inflict an unknown number of casualties on the English army.
Henry II's marriage with Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine is effectively ended when she moves back to Aquitaine. Henry begins an affair with Rosamund Clifford.
December 9 – King Malcolm IV dies at Jedburgh after a 12-year reign and is succeeded by his brother William I (the Lion) as ruler of Scotland (until 1214).

January 30 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa holds an opening ceremony for the Sanjūsangen-dō, a temple built by Taira no Kiyomori.
September 5 – Emperor Nijō abdicates the throne and dies after a 7-year reign. He is succeeded by his 1-year-old son Rokujō as the 79th emperor of Japan.
In China the Jin Dynasty (Great Jin) and the Song Dynasty make a lasting peace (until 1205).

Eskil, Danish archbishop of Lund, appoints Fulco as the first Bishop of Estonia, marking the early beginning of the introduction of Christianity to the country. He will visit Estonia for the first time in 1169 or 1170.
Hildegard of Bingen, German Benedictine abbess, founds Eibingen Abbey on the opposite bank of the Rhine near Rüdesheim (approximate date).
The construction of Liuhe Pagoda (Six Harmonies Pagoda) in Hangzhou, China, is completed during the Song Dynasty.

January 24 – William of Ypres, Flemish nobleman (b. 1090)
February 7 – Stephen of Armenia, Armenian nobleman (b. 1111)
March 27 – Awn al-Din ibn Hubayra, Abbasid vizier (b. 1105)
April 11
- Ibn al-Tilmidh, Arab physician and calligrapher (b. 1074)
- Croatia (b. 1133
  )

^ Vallvé Bermejo, Joaquín (1972). "La división territorial en la España musulmana (II): la cora de "Tudmīr" (Murcia)". Al-Andalus, p. 171.
ISBN 978-0-8020-0779-7
.

ISBN 978-1-135-94880-1
.

^ "The Meccan Revelations". World Digital Library. April 6, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2013.

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1140s 1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s
Years:	1162 1163 1164 1165 1166 1167 1168

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