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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1140 1141 1142 – 1143 – 1144 1145 1146

1143 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

1143 in poetry v • d • e

1143 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1143 MCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	1896
Armenian calendar	592 ԹՎ ՇՂԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-701 – -700
Berber calendar	2093
Buddhist calendar	1687
Burmese calendar	505
Byzantine calendar	6651 – 6652
Chinese calendar	壬戌年十二月十四日 (3779/3839-12-14) — to — 癸亥年十一月廿四日 (3780/3840-11-24)
Coptic calendar	859 – 860
Ethiopian calendar	1135 – 1136
Hebrew calendar	4903 – 4904
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1198 – 1199
- Shaka Samvat	1065 – 1066
- Kali Yuga	4244 – 4245
Holocene calendar	11143
Iranian calendar	521 – 522
Islamic calendar	537 – 538
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3476
Thai solar calendar	1686
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• April 5 – Manuel I Comnenus becomes Byzantine Emperor.
• July 1 – Battle of Wilton in England.
• September 26—Pope Celestine II succeeds Pope Innocent II as the 165th pope.
• October 5—Treaty of Zamora: Portugal is recognized by the Kingdom of Leon as an independent kingdom, although it has functioned as one since the Battle of São Mamede.
• December 25 – Baldwin III is crowned King of Jerusalem, succeeding his father Fulk.
• Robert of Ketton makes the first European translation of the Qur'an into Latin.
• The exploration of the uncharted eastern parts of Germany begins, and results in the founding of cities such as Lübeck.

[edit] Births

• July 31—Emperor Nijō of Japan (d. 1165)
• Pope Gregory IX (d. 1241)
• King William I of Scotland (d. 1214)

[edit] Deaths

• April 8—John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1087)
• September 24
  • Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
  • Pope Innocent II
• November 13—King Fulk of Jerusalem, Count of Anjou (b. c. 1089/1092)
• December 12—Kogyo-Daishi, restorer of Shingon Buddhism in Japan (b. 1095)
• date unknown
  • Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1084)
  • William of Malmesbury, English historian (b. 1080)
  • Zamakhshari, Persian scholar (b. 1070)