1167

Events

* Taira no Kiyomori becomes the first samurai to be appointed "Daijo Daijin", chief minister of the government of Japan.
* Peter of Blois becomes the tutor of William II of Sicily.
* Absalon, archbishop of Denmark, leads the first Danish synod at Lund.
* Absalon fortifies Copenhagen.
* William Marshal, described as "the greatest knight that ever lived," is knighted in England.
* Afonso I of Portugal is defeated by the Kingdom of Leon.
* Amalric I of Jerusalem unsuccessfully invades Egypt.
* William of Tyre becomes archdeacon of Tyre.
* May 29 — Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of Roman Senate is defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes; Pope Alexander III leaves Rome.

Births

* Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (d. 1191)

Deaths

* January 23 or January 28 — Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, mathematician, astronomer, and poet (b. 1092 or 1093)
* August 14 — Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne (b. c. 1120) (of epidemic after accompanying Frederick Barbarossa on a campaign into Latium).
* Děpold I of Jamnitz (epidemic)
* Frederick IV of Swabia (epidemic)
* Henry II of Limburg (epidemic)
* September 10 — Empress Maud, wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor) (b. 1102)
* Yesugei, father of Genghis Khan
* Robert of Melun, English theologian and bishop