1162

Events 
 June 3 – Thomas Becket named Archbishop of Canterbury.
 July 15 – Ladislaus II of Hungary declared King of Hungary.
 July 24 – Emperor Gaozong abdicated to Emperor Xiaozong.
 July 25 – Emperor Xiaozong said to restore Yue Fei after his death.

 Births 
 October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214)
 Abd-el-latif, Baghdad traveller and writer
 Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire (died 1227)
 Muhammad of Ghor, Persian conqueror and sultan (died 1206)
 Renier of Montferrat, Byzantine politician
 Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford (died 1218)

 Deaths 
 February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
 June 27 – Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
 July 7 – Haakon II of Norway
 August 6 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
 Heloise, lover of Pierre Abélard (born 1101)
 Iziaslav III of Kiev
 Ibn Zuhr, Arab physician (born 1090)

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