1167

Events

• Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed Daijo Daijin, chief minister of the government of Japan.
• Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily.
• Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund.
• Absalon fortifies Copenhagen.
• William Marshal, called "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted in England.
• Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon.
• Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt.
• William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre.
• May 29 — Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of Roman Senate is defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes; Pope Alexander III leaves Rome.

Births

• Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (d. 1191)

Deaths

• January 23 or January 28 — Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (b. 1092 or 1093)
• August 14 — Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (b. c. 1120) (of epidemic after accompanying Frederick Barbarossa on a campaign into Latium).
• Děpold I of Jamnitz (epidemic)
• Frederick IV of Swabia (epidemic)
• Henry II of Limburg (epidemic)
• September 10 — Empress Maud, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor) (b. 1102)
• Yesugei, father of Genghis Khan
• Robert of Melun, English theologian and bishop

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