1158 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 11 - Vladislav II becomes King of Bohemia
• End of the formal reign of Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan, also the beginning of his cloistered rule, which will last to his death in 1192.
• November 29 - Eleanor of Aquitaine arrives in Salisbury, Wiltshire on royal business.
• Emperor Nijo ascends to the throne of Japan.
• British Pound Sterling (currency) introduced
• Margrave Ottokar III of Styria inherited the County of Pitten

Births

• September 23 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Brittany

Deaths

Heads of states

• England - Henry II Curt Mantle, King of England (reigned 1154 - 1189).
• France - Louis VII, King of France (reigned 1137 - 1180).