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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1137 1138 1139 – 1140 – 1141 1142 1143

1140 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1140 in poetry v • d • e

1140 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1140 MCXL
Ab urbe condita	1893
Armenian calendar	589 ԹՎ ՇՁԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-704 – -703
Berber calendar	2090
Buddhist calendar	1684
Burmese calendar	502
Byzantine calendar	6648 – 6649
Chinese calendar	己未年十二月初十日 (3776/3836-12-10) — to — 庚申年十一月廿一日 (3777/3837-11-21)
Coptic calendar	856 – 857
Ethiopian calendar	1132 – 1133
Hebrew calendar	4900 – 4901
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1195 – 1196
- Shaka Samvat	1062 – 1063
- Kali Yuga	4241 – 4242
Holocene calendar	11140
Iranian calendar	518 – 519
Islamic calendar	534 – 535
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3473
Thai solar calendar	1683
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• June 3 – Pierre Abelard is condemned for heresy by a church court in Sens, France.
• December 21 – Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg, the stronghold of Welfs.
• Henry Jasomirgott is made count palatine of the Rhine.
• The town of Lanark in Scotland is made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland.
• Camaldolite monk Gratian founds the science of Canon law with the publication of the Decretum Gratiani.
• Marburg becomes a town.
• The Assizes of Ariano are enacted by Roger II of Sicily.
• Roger II of Sicily takes the practice of medicine under royal control.

[edit] Births

• May 28—Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
• Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (d. 1160)

[edit] Deaths

• February 6—Thurstan, Archbishop of York
• February 14—Leo I of Armenia
• Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian