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unusual facts about 1170


1170

November (or December) – Henry II of England, when word reaches him in France of Thomas Becket's latest actions, utters words that are interpreted by his followers as a wish for the archbishop's death.


2006–07 Pakistan Premier League

Pakistan Army keeper Jaffar Khan set a new Pakistani record by remaining unbeaten for 1170 minutes.

Absalon

But he continued to keep a watchful eye over the Baltic, and in 1170 destroyed another pirate stronghold, farther eastward, at Dziwnów on the isle of Wolin.

Adel, Leeds

It was built 1150-1170 and has been little altered since, although a bell-cote was added in 1838-39 by R. D. Chantrell.

Ancient Diocese of Ribe

His successor Radulf (1170–71), an Englishman and chancellor to King Valdemar I, translated to the cathedral the relics of Saint Leofdag, who was never formally canonized.

Attems

Their family lineage started to form in the second half of the 12th century at the Fortress of Attems Attimis in Cividale (Konrad of Attems first mentioned in 1102 followed by Arbo Attems (2.2. 1170) and Henricus Attems (6.2. 1170)).

Barbarossa chandelier

The Barbarossa chandelier (German: Barbarossaleuchter) was made on the order of Emperor Frederick I, nicknamed Barbarossa and his wife Beatrice sometime between 1165 and 1170 and was installed under the cupola of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen Cathedral.

Benedicta Ebbesdotter of Hvide

Benedicta was born in Knadrup in Northern Zealand in Denmark between 1165 and 1170 as the child of the noble Ebbe Sunesson Hvide.

Berkeley family

The Berkeley family descends in the male line from Robert Fitzharding (d.1170), 1st feudal baron of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, reputedly the son of Harding of Bristol, the son of Eadnoth the Constable (Alnod), a high official under King Edward the Confessor.

Birr Castle

There has been a castle on the site since 1170, and from the 14th to the 17th century the O'Carroll family ruled from here over an area known as "Ely O'Carroll".

Bledington

The Church of England parish church of St Leonard dates from 1170: 12th century work includes the nave, pillars, tub font and sanctus bellcote: 13th century south aisle; 14th century windows; 15th century tower, stained glass and tiny chantry chapel: open bell-chamber and ring of six bells.

Chongyang

Wang Chongyang (1113 – 1170), Chinese Taoist in the Song Dynasty

Collingtree

Others think that Colen is a version of St Columba to whom the village church was dedicated in 1170.

David Powel

It also popularised the legend that Prince Madoc had discovered America in about 1170, a tale used to justify English encroachments on the territory of Spanish America (for example in Hakluyt's Discourse on Western Planting).

De Rada

Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada (1170 - 1247), A Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and historian

Ermessende of Pelet

Ermessende first married Pierre Bermond, lord of Anduze, and they ruled Melgueil from 1170 to 1172 when he died.

Ghazi II Saif ud-Din

The latter, who was waiting for an excuse to annex Mosul, conquered Sinjar in September 1170 and besieged Mosul, which surrendered on 22 January 1171.

Great Canterbury Psalter

In 1170, Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, has returned from his exile in France with a series of splendid manuscripts illuminated on the continent which were to influence the style of the Christ Church scriptorium, one of the most important centres making illuminated codices in England.

Gwen Freeman

She had been a co-host on 1170 KFAQ in Tulsa, Oklahoma since the inception of The Michael DelGiorno Show in 2002.

Heimaey stave church

Holtålen stave church from 1170 was used as the model for the church, this is now at Sverresborg museum in Trondheim.

Jamboree in the Hills

The entire event has been carried on Wheeling radio stations 1170 WWVA and/or 98.7 WOVK, every year since it's inception, having originally grown out of WWVA's live Jamboree radio show.

Jean de Gisors

Sometime between 1170 and 1180 he purchased the manor of Buckland, Hampshire from the de Port family.

Judith of Poland

In documents from 1170 Judith is named as a living person, but according to chronicles from 1177 her husband Otto I was already married to his second wife, Ada of Holland.

KOWZ

KRUE, a radio station (1170 AM) licensed to serve Waseca, Minnesota, which held the call sign KOWZ from 2003 to 2012

KSTT

KJOC, a radio station (1170 AM) licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, which used the call sign KSTT from 1946 to 1984, and from 1986 to 1993.

KVOO

KFAQ, a radio station (1170 AM) licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, which used the call sign KVOO until May 2002

Lisieux Cathedral

Built between 1170 and the middle of the 13th century through the initiative of Bishop Arnulf, the cathedral was the seat of the Bishop of Lisieux until the diocese of Lisieux was abolished under the Concordat of 1801 and merged into the Diocese of Bayeux.

Liturgical drama

About the beginning of the twelfth century we hear of a play of St. Catherine performed at Dunstable by Geoffroy de Gorham, later abbot of St. Albans, and a passage in Fitzstephen's "Life of Becket" shows that such plays were common in London about 1170.

Maelgwn

Maelgwn ap Rhys (c. 1170 - 1230), son of Rhys ap Gruffydd and ruler of part of Deheubarth

Marie I, Countess of Boulogne

Marie I or Mary (1136 – 25 July 1182 in St Austrebert, Montreuil, France) was the suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1159 to 1170.

Nepenthes klossii

The type specimen of the species, Kloss s.n., was collected by Cecil Boden Kloss near an expedition campsite (camp VIb) on January 26, 1913, at an elevation of between 930 and 1170 m above sea level.

Pentraeth

In 1170 it was the site of a battle when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with an army raised in Ireland in an attempt to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his father Owain Gwynedd.

Reginald II

Reginald II, Count of Bar (died 1170), Count of Bar and Lord of Mousson from 1149

Rockford, Hampshire

A chapel at Rockford, subject to the church of Ellingham, was granted by Walter of St Quentin, with the tithe from his house, to the abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte about 1170, and mass was to be said there three times a week by the chaplain of Ellingham or a monk.

San Bartolomeo, Venice

It was renovated in 1170, and became the church of the German community in Venice, whose commercial headquarters were nearby at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi.

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 11th Baronet

His direct ancestors, the Williams family, were an important parliamentary and landowning family from Denbighshire, north Wales, who in the 17th Century married into the famous Wynn family of Gwydir, the direct patrilineal descendants of Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd 1137–1170, and the only surviving branch of that dynasty.

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 9th Baronet

The Williams-Wynn baronets were an important family of Denbighshire landowners, whose 17th century ancestor had married into the Wynn family of Gwydir, the patrilineal descendants of Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd (1137–1170), and in time they became the senior surviving branch of his family.

Sturluson

Sighvatr Sturluson (1170–1238), skaldic poet, goði and member of the Icelandic Sturlungar clan

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

Hasson named The Becket Fund after Thomas Becket, who was murdered in 1170, after a possible misunderstanding and a long series of altercations and events between the English monarch and state, the papacy, other clergy and Becket.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1209

United Nations Security Council resolution 1209, adopted unanimously on 19 November 1998, after recalling resolutions 1170 (1998) and 1196 (1998) on Africa, the Council addressed illicit arms flows on the continent.

Vineta

About 1170, the Nordic Knytlinga saga reported a siege of Jomsborg by the Dano-Norwegian king Magnus (1043) and a campaign against that place by the Danish king Valdemar I (1170).

Vsevolod Mstislavich

Vsevolod Mstislavich of Volhynia, Rurikid, knyaz of Belz (1170–96), knyaz of Volodymyr-Volynsky (1188)

Vsevolod the Big Nest

On his return from the Byzantine Empire to Rus' in 1170, Vsevolod supposedly visited Tbilisi, as a local chronicle records that that year the Georgian king entertained his

Who Killed Thomas Becket?

Who Killed Thomas Becket? is a 2004 Channel 4 documentary concerning the murder of Thomas Becket, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to his death in 1170.

William de Vesci

He was appointed Sheriff of Northumberland from 1155 to 1170 and then Sheriff of Lancashire from 1166 to 1170.

Zinna Abbey

The abbey was founded in about 1170 by Wichmann von Seeburg, the Archbishop of Magdeburg, after his troops had conquered the former Slavic territory.


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