1166

Events

* July 5 — Document written that first mentions the tow of Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria.
* Marko III succeeds Yoannis V as Patriarch of Alexandria.
* Henry the Lion erects the first bronze statue north of the Alps.
* The Assize of Clarendon is enacted in England.
* Tribhuvanāditya comes to power in the Khmer empire.

Births

* July 29 — Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
* December 24 — John of England (d. 1216)
* Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1218)
* William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (d. 1240)

Deaths

* May 7 — William I of Sicily
* Santa Rosalia, patron saint of Palermo (according to legend; per legend b. 1130)
* Abdul Qadir Jelani, founder of the Qadiriyyah Sufi Tariqah (b. 1077)

Heads of states

* England — Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154–1189)
* France — Louis VII, King of France (reigned 1137–1180)