1163

Year 1163 (MCLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

 * March/April (traditional date) – The first stone of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris is set by Pope Alexander III during the reign of Louis VII of France.
 * May 19 – Council of Tours opens. Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.
 * Owain Gwynedd becomes partial ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales on the death of Gruffydd ap Rhys.
 * Silesian duchies accept the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire.
 * The Norwegian Law of Succession is introduced.
 * The Guanfuchang salt-fields (官富場) in Hong Kong (modern-day To Kwa Wan, Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong and Lam Tin districts) are first officially operated by the Song dynasty.
 * Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house, by abbot Ekkehard.
 * The Thousand Pillar Temple is constructed by Rudra Deva in India.

Births

 * August 19 – Ottokar IV of Styria (d. 1192)
 * Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (d. 1204)
 * Canute VI of Denmark (d. 1202)
 * Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent (d. 1224)
 * As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (d. 1181)
 * Ibn al-Qabisi, Iraqi grammarian and poet (d. 1235)

Deaths

 * January 14 – King Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
 * February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
 * May – Abd al-Mu'min, founder of the Almohad Empire (b. 1094)
 * August 10 – Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1089)
 * date unknown – Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch (b. 1127) - or possibly early 1164