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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1147 1148 1149 – 1150 – 1151 1152 1153

1150 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

1150 in poetry v • d • e

1150 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1150 MCL
Ab urbe condita	1903
Armenian calendar	599 ԹՎ ՇՂԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-694 – -693
Berber calendar	2100
Buddhist calendar	1694
Burmese calendar	512
Byzantine calendar	6658 – 6659
Chinese calendar	己巳年十二月初一日 (3786/3846-12-1) — to — 庚午年十二月十一日 (3787/3847-12-11)
Coptic calendar	866 – 867
Ethiopian calendar	1142 – 1143
Hebrew calendar	4910 – 4911
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1205 – 1206
- Shaka Samvat	1072 – 1073
- Kali Yuga	4251 – 4252
Holocene calendar	11150
Iranian calendar	528 – 529
Islamic calendar	544 – 545
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3483
Thai solar calendar	1693
v • d • e

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Middle East 1.3 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

• Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges.
• King Sverker I of Sweden is deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden.
• The city of Airdrie, Scotland is founded.
• Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
• A Benedictine priory is founded at Birkenhead, England, resulting in the first recorded Mersey Ferry.
• Christchurch Priory is founded in Dorset, England.
• Castle Rising is built in Norfolk, England by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
• The University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, is founded.
• The Tuam is promoted to a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Ireland.
• The Bishopric of Aberdeen is established.
• Christian Malone writes his Irish Chronology (Chronicum Scotorum).
• The city of Neuruppin is founded in Brandenburg, Germany.
• The city of Rinteln is founded in Lower Saxony, Germany.
• Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg.
• Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux.
• Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences.
• Garcia IV Ramirez ends his reign as King of Navarre.

[edit] Middle East

• Joscelin II of Edessa is taken prisoner during the Second Crusade.
• The city of Ashkelon is fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers.
• The earliest textual reference is made to Gypsies working as musicians in Constantinople.

[edit] Asia

The temple at Angkor Wat is completed in Khmer (present-day Cambodia).

[edit] Births

• Leo II of Armenia (d. 1229)
• William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber (approximate date; d. 1211)
• Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (approximate date; d. 1176)
• Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1198)
• Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (d. 1220)
• Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d. 1195)
• Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date; d. 1228)

[edit] Deaths

• Emperor Xizong of Jin, third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty
• Suryavarman II, Khmer king, builder of Angkor Wat
• Barisan of Ibelin, figure in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Pribislav of Brandenburg, last king of the Hevelli (b. c. 1075)
• Henry (Bishop of Uppsala) (traditional date)