1157

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1154 1155 1156 – 1157 – 1158 1159 1160

1157 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1157 MCLVII
Ab urbe condita	1910
Armenian calendar	606 ԹՎ ՈԶ
Assyrian calendar	5907
Balinese saka calendar	1078–1079
Bengali calendar	564
Berber calendar	2107
English Regnal year	3 Hen. 2 – 4 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1701
Burmese calendar	519
Byzantine calendar	6665–6666
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3853 or 3793     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 3854 or 3794
Coptic calendar	873–874
Discordian calendar	2323
Ethiopian calendar	1149–1150
Hebrew calendar	4917–4918
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1213–1214
- Shaka Samvat	1078–1079
- Kali Yuga	4257–4258
Holocene calendar	11157
Igbo calendar	157–158
Iranian calendar	535–536
Islamic calendar	551–552
Japanese calendar	Hōgen 2 (保元２年)
Javanese calendar	1063–1064
Julian calendar	1157 MCLVII
Korean calendar	3490
Minguo calendar	755 before ROC 民前755年
Nanakshahi calendar	−311
Seleucid era	1468/1469 AG
Thai solar calendar	1699–1700
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1283 or 902 or 130     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1284 or 903 or 131

1157 (MCLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1157th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 157th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 12th century, and the 8th year of the 1150s decade. As of the start of 1157, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Births

• September 8 – King Richard I of England (died 1199)
• Leopold V of Austria (died 1194)
• Hojo Masako, wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo (died 1225)

Deaths

• May 15—Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince (b. c. 1099)
• August 21—King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1105)
• Agnes of Babenberg, daughter of Leopold III of Austria (b. 1111)
• Eystein II of Norway, king of Norway, (b. c. 1125)
• Sweyn III of Denmark, king of Denmark (b. c. 1125)

Events

• June 11 Albert I of Brandenburg, also called, The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), became the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first Margrave
• 23 October — Battle of Grathe Heath. A civil war in Denmark ended with the death of king Sweyn III. Valdemar I became king of all Denmark and restored and rebuild the country.