| Millennium: | 2nd millennium | 
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| 1161 by topic | |
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| 1161 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1161 MCLXI | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1914 | 
| Armenian calendar | 610 ԹՎ ՈԺ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5911 | 
| Bengali calendar | 568 | 
| Berber calendar | 2111 | 
| English Regnal year | 7 Hen. 2 – 8 Hen. 2 | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1705 | 
| Burmese calendar | 523 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6669–6670 | 
| Chinese calendar | 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3857 or 3797 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3858 or 3798 | 
| Coptic calendar | 877–878 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2327 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 1153–1154 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4921–4922 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1217–1218 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 1082–1083 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4261–4262 | 
| Holocene calendar | 11161 | 
| Igbo calendar | 161–162 | 
| Iranian calendar | 539–540 | 
| Islamic calendar | 555–557 | 
| Japanese calendar | Eiryaku 2 / Ōhō 1 (応保元年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 1067–1068 | 
| Julian calendar | 1161 MCLXI | 
| Korean calendar | 3494 | 
| Minguo calendar | 751 before ROC 民前751年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −307 | 
| Seleucid era | 1472/1473 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1703–1704 | 
Year 1161 (MCLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.