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Year 1168 (MCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= By place =

== Levant ==

== Egypt ==

  • December 22 – Afraid that the Egyptian capital Fustat (modern-day Old Cairo) will be captured by Crusader forces, its Fatimid vizier, Shawar, orders the city set afire. The capital burns for 54 days.

== Europe ==

  • March 27 – Patrick of Salisbury, Angevin governor of Poitou, is killed in an ambush at Poitiers by French forces under Guy of Lusignan. He is escorting Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine on a journey near the border of Aquitaine. Patrick's nephew, William Marshal, is part of the royal escort and is taken prisoner. Later he is ransomed and becomes a member of Eleanor's household.Asbridge, Thomas (2015). The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, Power Behind Five English Thrones, p. 87. London: Simon & Schuster.
  • King Valdemar I ("the Great") of Denmark conquers the Wendish capital at Arkona on the island of Rügen (modern Germany). The Wends become Christians and subject to Danish suzerainty.
  • Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, marries the 12-year-old Matilda (or Maud), daughter of King Henry II of England.Hywell Williams (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 126. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. {{ISBN|0-304-35730-8}}.
  • The newly born Commune of Rome conquers and destroys the rival neighboring city of Albano (modern Italy).{{cite book|first=Jean-Claude Maire|last=Vigueur|year=2010|title=L'autre Rome: Une histoire des Romains à l'époque communale (XIIe-XIVe siècle)|location=Paris|publisher=Tallandier|page=314}}
  • Stephen du Perche, Sicilian chancellor, is accused of plotting to claim the throne and is forced to flee.

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