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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1145 1146 1147 – 1148 – 1149 1150 1151

1148 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

1148 in poetry v • d • e

1148 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1148 MCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1901
Armenian calendar	597 ԹՎ ՇՂԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-696 – -695
Bengali calendar	555
Berber calendar	2098
Buddhist calendar	1692
Burmese calendar	510
Byzantine calendar	6656 – 6657
Chinese calendar	丁卯年十二月初八日 (3784/3844-12-8) — to — 戊辰年十一月十九日 (3785/3845-11-19)
Coptic calendar	864 – 865
Ethiopian calendar	1140 – 1141
Hebrew calendar	4908 – 4909
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1203 – 1204
- Shaka Samvat	1070 – 1071
- Kali Yuga	4249 – 4250
Holocene calendar	11148
Iranian calendar	526 – 527
Islamic calendar	542 – 543
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3481
Thai solar calendar	1691
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• June – The Second Crusade reaches Jerusalem. They meet at the Council of Acre and decide to attack Damascus.
• July – The Siege of Damascus ends in failure.
• Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona conquers Tortosa from the Moors.
• King Afonso I of Portugal takes Abrantes from the Moors.
• Anna Comnena writes the Alexiad, which is a biography of her father, Emperor Alexius I.
• Roger II of Sicily takes Susa and Sfax in Tunisia.

[edit] Births

• John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem and Latin Emperor of Constantinople (approximate date; d. 1237)
• Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (d. 1227)
• Pope Honorius III (d. 1227)

[edit] Deaths

• January 6 – Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1100)
• January 8 – William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
• April—Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1095)
• August 21 – William II, Count of Nevers (b. c. 1089)
• September 17 – Conan III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1070)
• November 2 – Saint Malachy (b. 1094)
• date unknown – Alphonse I of Toulouse (b. 1103), Count of Toulouse