| Millennium: | 2nd millennium | 
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| 1159 by topic | |
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| 1159 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1159 MCLIX | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1912 | 
| Armenian calendar | 608 ԹՎ ՈԸ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5909 | 
| Bengali calendar | 566 | 
| Berber calendar | 2109 | 
| English Regnal year | 5 Hen. 2 – 6 Hen. 2 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1703 | 
| Burmese calendar | 521 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6667–6668 | 
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 3855 or 3795 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 3856 or 3796 | 
| Coptic calendar | 875–876 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2325 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 1151–1152 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4919–4920 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1215–1216 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 1080–1081 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4259–4260 | 
| Holocene calendar | 11159 | 
| Igbo calendar | 159–160 | 
| Iranian calendar | 537–538 | 
| Islamic calendar | 553–554 | 
| Japanese calendar | Hōgen 4 / Heiji 1 (平治元年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 1065–1066 | 
| Julian calendar | 1159 MCLIX | 
| Korean calendar | 3492 | 
| Minguo calendar | 753 before ROC 民前753年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −309 | 
| Seleucid era | 1470/1471 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1701–1702 | 
Year 1159 (MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.