1164

This page relates to the year 1164 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Europe

  • January 30th: Henri II of England restricts the rights of the English Church by the promulgation of the Constitutions of Clarendon, by which it controls the election of new prelates and gives itself the right to translate clerks in front of his courts. It runs up against the opposition of the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. This one must be exiled.
  • September 14th: Foundation of the religious order and soldier of Calatrava in Castille by a bubble of the pope Alexandre III.
  • November 1st: Fearing for its life, the archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket embarks clandestinely for the France, in the night of the ler at November 2nd. As to the Pope, Louis VII grants to fugitive asylum and protection, in spite of all the prayers and threats of the king d' Angleterre Henri II '' Plantagenêt ''. It is exiled during six years in France, with Pontigny then with Sens

  • Alliance enters the count de Toulouse, Raymond and Genoa.
  • Charles VII of Sweden founds the archbishop's palace of Uppsala. A monk cistercian is devoted by it archbishop to Sens.
  • the Church imposes as king in Norway Magnus Erlingsson, which reigns initially under the regency of his/her Erling father. To strengthen the authority of the young king, the Eysteinn archbishop the sacring with Nidarós according to the rite of use in all the Occident. It is the first ceremony of this kind in Scandinavia. (end of reign in 1177).
  • the duke of Saxony Henri the Lion and the king Valdemar I {{er}} of Denmark invade the Poméranie.

The close East & Arab World

  • April - May: Intervention in Egypt of the Kurdish general Shirkuh, uncle of Saladin, sent by Nur AD-DIN to restore the vizier Chawer.

  • July: A franque forwarding besieges the Kurdish lieutenant Shirkuh and its nephew Salah-AD-DIN in Bilbeis, in Egypt. At the same moment Nur AD-DIN makes captive the counts of Antioche and of Tripoli, takes Harim and Panyas: Amaury Ier of Jerusalem is withdrawn from Egypt, having obtained only the provisional withdrawal of Shirkuh ( October).

Arts & culture

  • Russia: Andreï Bogolioubski brings to Vladimir the icon of the Virgin of Tendress which had been deposited with the monastery of woman of Vychgorod.

Sciences & technology

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