1161

This page relates to the year 1161 Calendrier Julien.

Events

War of the Song against the Jin in China.
the Mongolian khan Koutoula, fourth wire of Kabul khan, takes again the fight against the Djürchet. The latter have torture victims (nailed on wood ass) and carried out with Beijing one of the brothers of Koutoula, Okin-barkak and his/her cousin, Ambakaï khan, made captive by the Tatars, combined of Djürchet against the other Mongolian tribes. To be avenged, Koutoula devastates the border region of north. According to the Chinese sources, the emperor of Djürchet organizes in 1161 a punitive forwarding against Koutoula, and the Mongols are crushed around the lake Buir Nuur by Djürchet combined in Tatars.

Nur AD-DIN Mahmud, atabek of Alep undertakes the pilgrimage with Mecque at the time when it is on the point of extirpating the heresy Chiite.

Peace between the Germans and the Gotland board, on the initiative of Henri the Lion, which confirms to the seconds the privileges granted in the duchy of Saxony by Lothaire III. The German merchants can go to Gotland. They are linked at the beginning of Lübeck in a sworn association, at the instigation of Henri the Lion which recognizes their chief Oldéric like his representative and confers powers to him judicial similar to those that it grants to Gotlandais in Saxony.
a colony of German traders settles with Visby, where is founded “ the association of the seasonal German merchants of Gotland ”, Guilde at the origin of the Germanic Hanse.

Beginning of the reign of Charles VII of Sweden, which is finally recognized by all the country (fine in 1167).

Driven out Rome, the pope Alexandre III arrives at Montpellier and a council is due to it to May.

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