Year 1168 (MCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1168 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1168
MCLXVIII
Ab urbe condita1921
Armenian calendar617
ԹՎ ՈԺԷ
Assyrian calendar5918
Balinese saka calendar1089–1090
Bengali calendar575
Berber calendar2118
English Regnal year14 Hen. 2 – 15 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1712
Burmese calendar530
Byzantine calendar6676–6677
Chinese calendar丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
3865 or 3658
    — to —
戊子年 (Earth Rat)
3866 or 3659
Coptic calendar884–885
Discordian calendar2334
Ethiopian calendar1160–1161
Hebrew calendar4928–4929
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1224–1225
 - Shaka Samvat1089–1090
 - Kali Yuga4268–4269
Holocene calendar11168
Igbo calendar168–169
Iranian calendar546–547
Islamic calendar563–564
Japanese calendarNin'an 3
(仁安3年)
Javanese calendar1075–1076
Julian calendar1168
MCLXVIII
Korean calendar3501
Minguo calendar744 before ROC
民前744年
Nanakshahi calendar−300
Seleucid era1479/1480 AG
Thai solar calendar1710–1711
Tibetan calendar阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
1294 or 913 or 141
    — to —
阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
1295 or 914 or 142
King Valdemar I (1131–1182)


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  • December 22 – Afraid that the Egyptian capital Fustat (modern-day Old Cairo) will be captured by Crusader forces, its Fatimid vizier, Shawar, orders the city set afire. The capital burns for 54 days.

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References edit

  1. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 309–310. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 311. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. ^ Asbridge, Thomas (2015). The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, Power Behind Five English Thrones, p. 87. London: Simon & Schuster.
  4. ^ Hywell Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 126. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. ^ Vigueur, Jean-Claude Maire (2010). L'autre Rome: Une histoire des Romains à l'époque communale (XIIe-XIVe siècle). Paris: Tallandier. p. 314.