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• 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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qg1niC-MENsC&q=1163+Notre+Dame+Pope&pg=PA287|title=Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550|last=Wright|first=Craig|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780521088343|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=287|language=en|orig-year=1989}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/councilvaticana00popegoog|quote=1163 Notre Dame Pope.|title=The Council of the Vatican, and the events of the time|last=Pope|first=Thomas Canon|publisher=James Duffy|year=1871|location=Dublin|pages=[https://archive.org/details/councilvaticana00popegoog/page/n87 63]|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last1=Clark|first1=William W.|last2=Mark|first2=Robert|date=1984-03-01|title=The First Flying Buttresses: A New Reconstruction of the Nave of Notre-Dame de Paris|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=66|issue=1|pages=47–65|doi=10.1080/00043079.1984.10788136|issn=0004-3079|quote=The traditional starting date is associated with the visit of Pope Alexander III to Paris between March 24 and April 25, 1163, during which time he dedicated the "new" chevet at St.-Germain-des-Pres and is said to have laid the cornerstone of Notre-Dame.}}{{Cite journal|last=Bruzelius|first=Caroline|date=1987-12-01|title=The Construction of Notre-Dame in Paris|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=69|issue=4|pages=540–569|doi=10.1080/00043079.1987.10788458|issn=0004-3079|quote=The tradition that the cornerstone was laid in 1163 may well be either apocryphal or largely symbolic [...] I shall not take issue with the traditional date of the inception of the work in ca. 1163, nor with the date of its completion in ca. 1250, for both of which there is much good evidence.}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mp2BgAAQBAJ&q=1163+Notre+Dame&pg=PA21|title=The Cambridge Companion to French Music|last=Earp|first=Lawrence|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2015|isbn=9780521877947|editor-last=Trezise|editor-first=Simon|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=21|language=en|chapter=2 - Cathedral and Court: Music Under the Late Capetian and Valois Kings, to Louis XI}}
• May 19 – Council of Tours opens. Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5qB-LIwpmVkC&q=1163+Council+of+Tours+Albigensians&pg=PA140|title=The Papacy, 1073-1198: Continuity and Innovation|last=Robinson|first=I. S.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780521319225|series=Cambridge Medieval Textbooks|location=Cambridge, New York and Melbourne|pages=140|language=en|orig-year=1990}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajPTu7vN3E4C&q=1163+Council+of+Tours+Albigensians&pg=PA41|title=The Albigensian Heresy|last=Warner|first=Rev H. J.|publisher=Book Tree|year=2007|isbn=9781585092932|location=San Diego, CA|pages=41|language=en|orig-year=1922}}
• Owain Gwynedd becomes partial ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales on the death of Gruffydd ap Rhys.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_Ong1PZq_QC&q=1163+Owain+Gwynedd&pg=PA134|title=Henry II: New Interpretations|last=Duffy|first=Séan|publisher=Boydell Press|year=2007|isbn=9781843833406|editor-last=Harper-Bill|editor-first=Christopher|location=Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY|pages=134|language=en|chapter=Henry II and England's Insular Neighbours|editor-last2=Vincent|editor-first2=Nicholas}}{{Cite journal|last=Malone|first=Patricia|date=2008|title="Se Principem Nominat:" Rhetorical Self-Fashioning and Epistolary Style in the Letters of Owain Gwynedd|journal=Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium|volume=28|pages=169–184|issn=1545-0155|quote=We know from Thomas Becket's letter to Pope Alexander that Owain had begun to refer to himself as princeps by at least 1163.|jstor=41219622}}
• Silesian duchies accept the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bseyBwAAQBAJ&q=1163+Silesia&pg=PA4|title=Silesia: Yesterday and Today|last=Scholz|first=Albert August|publisher=Springer|year=2013|isbn=9789401760027|location=The Hague, Netherlands|pages=3–4|language=en|orig-year=1964}}{{Cite journal|last=Hartshorne|first=Richard|date=1933-12-01|title=Geographic and Political Boundaries in Upper Silesia|journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers|volume=23|issue=4|pages=195–228|doi=10.1080/00045603309357073|issn=0004-5608|quote=The separation of Silesia from Poland dates, for practical purposes perhaps from 1163}}{{Cite journal|last=HARRINGTON|first=JOSEPH F.|title=Upper Silesia and the Paris Peace Conference|date=1974|journal=The Polish Review|volume=19|issue=2|pages=25–45|issn=0032-2970|quote=Upper Silesia had not been Polish since 1163|jstor=25777197}}
• The Norwegian Law of Succession is introduced.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-K68CgAAQBAJ&q=1163+Law+of+Succession+Norway&pg=PA322|title=Vox regis: Royal Communication in High Medieval Norway|last=Brégaint|first=David|publisher=BRILL|year=2015|isbn=9789004306431|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=91|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zQrDwAAQBAJ&q=1163+Law+of+Succession+Norway&pg=PA295|title=Routledge Revivals: Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006): An Encyclopedia|last=Emmerson|first=Richard K.|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2016|isbn=9781351681681|location=London and New York|pages=295|language=en|orig-year=2006}}{{Cite journal|last=Vandvik|first=Eirik|date=2010-06-29|title=Donatio Constantini and early Norwegian church policy|journal=Symbolae Osloenses: Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies|language=en|volume=31|issue=1|pages=131–137|doi=10.1080/00397675508590469}}
• 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/hongkong/hktimeln.htm|title=Hong Kong Time Line Chronological Timetable of Events - Worldatlas.com|date=7 April 2007|website=www.worldatlas.com|access-date=2019-06-27}}{{Better source needed|date=June 2019}}
• Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house, by abbot Ekkehard.{{Cite journal|last=Ozola|first=Silvjia|date=2018|title=Impact of Catholic Monastery Church Building on Cistercian Monastery Formation in Livonia and the State of the Teutonic Order during 13th and 14th Century|url=http://llufb.llu.lv/Raksti/Landscape_Architecture_Art/2018/LLU_Landscape_Architect_Art_Vol_12_2018-66-76.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://llufb.llu.lv/Raksti/Landscape_Architecture_Art/2018/LLU_Landscape_Architect_Art_Vol_12_2018-66-76.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=Scientific Journal of the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies "Landscape Architecture and Art"|volume=12|issue=12|pages=71}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OyxTAwAAQBAJ&q=1163+Loccum+Abbey&pg=PA10|title=Reforming the Monastery: Protestant Theologies of the Religious Life|last=Peters|first=Greg|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|year=2014|isbn=9781630870454|series=New Monastic Library|location=Eugene, OR|pages=10|language=en}}
• The Thousand Pillar Temple is constructed by Rudra Deva in India.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9eFfZ0H0M0C&q=1163+Thousand+Pillar+Temple&pg=PA23|title=Engineering in Rocks for Slopes, Foundations and Tunnels|last=Ramamurthy|first=T.|publisher=PHI Learning Private Limited|year=2010|isbn=9788120341685|location=New Delhi|pages=23|language=en}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6VyDwAAQBAJ&q=1163+Thousand+Pillar+Temple&pg=PA175|title=Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection: 7th International Conference, EuroMed 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 29 – November 3, 2018, Proceedings|last1=Ioannides|first1=Marinos|last2=Fink|first2=Eleanor|last3=Brumana|first3=Raffaella|last4=Patias|first4=Petros|last5=Doulamis|first5=Anastasios|last6=Martins|first6=João|last7=Wallace|first7=Manolis|publisher=Springer|year=2018|isbn=9783030017651|volume=Part II|location=Cham, Switzerland|pages=175|language=en|chapter=Ancient Sandbox Technique: An Experimental Study Using Piezoelectric Sensors by Trishala Daka, Lokesh Udatha, Venkata Dilip Kumar, Pasupuleti Email, Prafulla Kalapatapu, Bharghava Rajaram}}

• August 19 – Ottokar IV of Styria (d. 1192){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIkPEK0SSLUC&q=1163+1192+Ottokar+IV+Styria&pg=PA191|title=Die deutschen Königspfalzen. Lieferung 3,5: Baden Württemberg: Rottweil – Ulm|last=Maurer|first=Helmut|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|year=2012|isbn=9783525365199|location=Göttingen, Germany|pages=191|language=de}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016337/images/index.html?seite=654|title=Neue Deutsche Biographie|last=Dopsch|first=Heinz|publisher=Duncker & Humblot|year=1999|isbn=3-428-00200-8|volume=19|location=Berlin|pages=640|chapter=Otakar IV}}
• Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (d. 1204){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qPkkDwAAQBAJ&q=1163+Ban+Kulin&pg=PA260|title=Bosnia & Herzegovina|last=Clancy|first=Tim|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|year=2017|isbn=9781784770181|edition=Edition 5|location=Chalfont St Peter, UK and Guilford, CT|pages=260|language=en}}
• Canute VI of Denmark (d. 1202){{Cite journal|last=Svanberg|first=Jan|date=1999|title=The legend of saint Stanislaus and king Boleslaus on the 12th century font in Tryde, Sweden|url=http://www.openbibart.fr/item/display/10068/739075|journal=Folia Historiae Artium|volume=5 - 6|quote=Knud VI, king of Denmark, 1163-1202}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPq6DAAAQBAJ&q=1163+Knud+VI+Denmark&pg=PA303|title=Historical Dictionary of Denmark|last=Thomas|first=Alastair H.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2016|isbn=9781442264656|location=Lanham, MA, Boulder, CO, New York, London|pages=303–304|language=en}}
• Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent (d. 1224){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLB7XUPTKlsC&q=1163+H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D+Yoshitoki&pg=PA22|title=Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945: The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu|last=Brownlee|first=John S.|publisher=UBC Press|year=1999|isbn=9780774842549|location=Vancouver, Canada|pages=22|language=en|orig-year=1997}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9Kwb_A1y-4C&q=1163+H%C5%8Dj%C5%8D+Yoshitoki&pg=PA150|title=Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes: Japan's Tokeiji Convent Since 1285|last1=Morrell|first1=Sachiko Kaneko|last2=Morrell|first2=Robert E.|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=2006|isbn=9780791468289|location=Albany, NY|pages=153|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Brownlee|first=John|date=1975|title=Crisis as Reinforcement of the Imperial Institution. The Case of the Jōkyū Incident, 1221|journal=Monumenta Nipponica|volume=30|issue=2|pages=193–201|doi=10.2307/2383842|issn=0027-0741|jstor=2383842}}
• As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (d. 1181){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy8fDAAAQBAJ&q=1163+As-Salih+Ismail+al-Malik&pg=PA301|title=Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis|last=Lock|first=Peter|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9781317100607|location=London and New York|pages=301|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=205716|title=As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (Biographical details)|website=British Museum|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-28}}
• Ibn al-Qabisi, Iraqi grammarian and poet (d. 1235){{cite book |author1=Ibn al-Sha'ar al-Mawsili |title=عقود الجمان في شعراء هذا الزمان |date=2005 |publisher=DKI (Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah ) |location=Damascus, Syria |pages=308–311 |edition=First|volume=V, Part VI |url=https://archive.org/stream/do-Qalayed/Qalayed5#page/n307/mode/2up |language=ar}}

• January 14 – King Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNgaAgAAQBAJ&q=1163+Ladislau+II+Hungary&pg=PA230|title=Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300|last1=Berend|first1=Nora|last2=Urbańczyk|first2=Przemysław|last3=Wiszewski|first3=Przemysław|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2013|isbn=9780521781565|series=Cambridge Medieval Textbooks|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=230|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last1=Christie|first1=Olav H. J.|last2=Rácz|first2=Anita|last3=Elek|first3=János|last4=Héberger|first4=Károly|date=2014|title=Classification and unscrambling a class-inside-class situation by object target rotation: Hungarian silver coins of the Árpád Dynasty, ad 997–1301|url=http://real.mtak.hu/13432/7/JChemometrics_Manuscript-final_2014.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://real.mtak.hu/13432/7/JChemometrics_Manuscript-final_2014.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=Journal of Chemometrics|language=en|volume=28|issue=4|pages=287–292|doi=10.1002/cem.2601|s2cid=54977823|issn=1099-128X|quote=1162-1163 László II}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QilobDXhObYC&q=1163+Laszlo+II+Hungary&pg=PA273|title=At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, C.1000 - C.1300|last=Berend|first=Nora|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2001|isbn=9780521651851|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=273|language=en}}
• February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JP6OzSDQJlwC&q=1163+Baldwin+III+Jerusalem&pg=PA325|title=Sacred Violence: The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1095-1396|last=Claster|first=Jill N.|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2009|isbn=9781442600584|location=Toronto, New York and Plymouth, UK|pages=325|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9QUAAAAIAAJ&q=1163+Baldwin+III+Jerusalem&pg=PA30|title=Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader States: 1134-1199|last=Nicholson|first=Robert Lawrence|publisher=Brill Archive|year=1973|isbn=9789004036765|location=Leiden|pages=30|language=en}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2ZPZziLRKcC&q=1163+Baldwin+III+Jerusalem&pg=PA140|title=Gendering the Crusades|last=Schein|first=Sylvia|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2002|isbn=9780231125994|editor-last=Edgington|editor-first=Susan|location=New York|pages=143|language=en|chapter=Women in Medieval Colonial Society: The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century|orig-year=2001|editor-last2=Lambert|editor-first2=Sarah}}
• May – Abd al-Mu'min, founder of the Almohad Empire (b. 1094){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aBHSc2hTfeUC&q=1163+Abd+al-Mu%27min&pg=PA6|title=The Middle Ages: Dictionary of World Biography|last=Beauregard|first=Erving E.|publisher=Routledge|year=2012|isbn=9781136593130|editor-last=Magill|editor-first=Frank N.|volume=2|location=London and New York|pages=6|language=en}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3QzDwAAQBAJ&q=1163+Abd+al-Mu%27min&pg=PA144|title=Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History|last=Empey|first=Heather J.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=9780190622183|editor-last=Gordon|editor-first=Matthew|location=Oxford and New York|pages=144|language=en|chapter=The Mothers of the Caliph’s Sons: Women as Spoils of War during the Early Almohad Period|editor-last2=Hain|editor-first2=Kathryn A.}}{{Cite journal|last=Hogendijk|first=Jan P.|date=1986-02-01|title=Discovery of an 11th-century geometrical compilation: The Istikmāl of Yūsuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hūd, king of Saragossa|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81926131.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81926131.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=Historia Mathematica|volume=13|issue=1|pages=43–52|doi=10.1016/0315-0860(86)90227-2|issn=0315-0860|quote=Abd al-Mu'min (the famous Almohad conqueror, who died in 1163)|doi-access=free}}
• August 10 – Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1089){{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7GJj_zvImcC&q=1163+Dahui+Zonggao&pg=PA231|title=Thinking With Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History|last=Share|first=Robert H.|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2007|isbn=9780824830496|editor-last=Furth|editor-first=Charlotte|location=Honolulu, HI|pages=231|language=en|chapter=How to Think with Chan Gong'an|editor-last2=Zeitlin|editor-first2=Judith T.|editor-last3=Hsiung|editor-first3=Ping-chen}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_Je6UW0XxUC&q=1163+Dahui+Zonggao&pg=PA375|title=The Record of Linji|last=Yixuan|first=Linji|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2009|isbn=9780824833190|editor-last=Kirchner|editor-first=Thomas Yūhō|location=Honolulu, HI|pages=111|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Zürn|first=Tobias Benedikt|date=2016|title=The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun by Wilt L. Idema (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/708659/summary|journal=Journal of Chinese Religions|language=en|volume=44|issue=1|pages=84–86|doi=10.1353/jcr.2016.0006 |issn=2050-8999|quote=Song dynasty (960-1279) Chinese Chan exegete, Dahui Zonggao 大慧宗杲 (1089-1163).|url-access=subscription}}
• date unknown – Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch (b. 1127) - or possibly early 1164{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JiYbDQAAQBAJ&q=1163+Constance+of+Antioch&pg=PA81|title=Anglo-Norman Studies XXXVIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2015|last=Murray|first=Alan V|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|year=2016|isbn=9781783271016|editor-last=Houts|editor-first=Elisabeth Van|location=Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY|pages=94|language=en|chapter=Constance, Princess of Antioch (1130 - 1164): Ancestry, Marriages and Family}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5DdBwAAQBAJ&q=1164+Constance+of+Antioch&pg=PA10|title=The Crusades to the Holy Land: The Essential Reference Guide: The Essential Reference Guide|last=Burgtorf|first=Jochen|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2015|isbn=9781610697804|editor-last=Murray|editor-first=Alan V.|location=Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO|pages=10|language=en|chapter=Antioch, Principality of}}

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