1169

Events

* Nur ad-Din invades Egypt, and his nephew Saladin becomes the sultan over the territory conquered by Nur ad-Din, as well as vizier of Cairo.
* Prince Andrey Bogolyubskiy sacks the Kievan Rus' capital Kiev.
* The conquest of Ireland begins. Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster.
* Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the English court of Henry II to establish her great court in Poitiers, where the Courts of Love flourish.

Births

* September 10 — Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1183)

Deaths

* January 2 — Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)
* July 9 — Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian