Year 1163 (MCLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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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.
- May 19 – Council of Tours opens. Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.
- Owain Gwynedd becomes partial ruler of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in north Wales on the death of Gruffydd ap Rhys.
- The Norwegian Law of Succession is introduced.
- 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.
- Egyptian military commander Shawar appointed Vizier of Egypt for a second term.
- Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house, by abbot Ekkehard.
- The Thousand Pillar Temple is constructed by Rudra Deva in India.</onlyinclude>
Births
- August 19 – Ottokar IV of Styria (d. 1192)
- Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, queen consort of England (d. 1217) (approximate date)
- Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia (d. 1204)
- Canute VI of Denmark (d. 1202)
- Hōjō Yoshitoki, Kamakura regent (d. 1224)
- As-Salih Ismail al-Malik, ruler of Syria (d. 1181)
- Ibn al-Qabisi, Iraqi grammarian and poet (d. 1235)
Deaths
- January 14 – King Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
- February 10 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
- May – Abd al-Mu'min, founder of the Almohad Empire (b. 1094)
- August 10 – Dahui Zonggao, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1089)
- date unknown – Constance of Antioch, ruler of Antioch (b. 1127) - or possibly early 1164