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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1149 1150 1151 – 1152 – 1153 1154 1155

1152 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

1152 in poetry v • d • e

1152 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1152 MCLII
Ab urbe condita	1905
Armenian calendar	601 ԹՎ ՈԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-692 – -691
Bengali calendar	559
Berber calendar	2102
Buddhist calendar	1696
Burmese calendar	514
Byzantine calendar	6660 – 6661
Chinese calendar	辛未年十一月廿三日 (3788/3848-11-23) — to — 壬申年十二月初四日 (3789/3849-12-4)
Coptic calendar	868 – 869
Ethiopian calendar	1144 – 1145
Hebrew calendar	4912 – 4913
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1207 – 1208
- Shaka Samvat	1074 – 1075
- Kali Yuga	4253 – 4254
Holocene calendar	11152
Iranian calendar	530 – 531
Islamic calendar	546 – 547
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3485
Thai solar calendar	1695
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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Africa 1.3 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Europe

• March 4—Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
• March 31 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem exiles his mother Melisande, with whom he has been jointly reigning, to Nablus.
• Eleanor of Aquitaine has her marriage to Louis VII annulled.
• May 18—Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou.
• The Church of Ireland acknowledges the Pope's authority.
• The archbishopric of Nidaros (Trondheim), Norway is established.
• The town of Gorodets (modern Russia) is founded by Prince Yuri Dolgoruki.
• The Synod of Kells-Mellifont established the present diocesan system of Ireland (with later modifications) and recognized the primacy of Armagh.

[edit] Africa

• The Almohad Dynasty conquers Algeria.

[edit] Asia

• Aladdin of Ghur sacks Ghazni and destroys the Ghaznavid Empire.

[edit] Births

• Alfonso II of Aragon (d. 1196)
• Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, bastard son of Henry II of England (approximate date; d. 1212)
• Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (d. 1185)
• Han Tuozhou, Song Dynasty Chinese statesman (d. 1207)
• Sir Edgar the Gentle, knight and courtesan of Henry II of England (d.1188)
• Roman the Great, "autocrat of the entire Rus", founder and prince of Halych-Wolyn Rus (future Kingdom of Ruthenia Minor), founder of Romanovichi genus of Rurikovichi dynasty

[edit] Deaths

• May 3—Matilda of Boulogne, sovereign Countess of Boulogne and queen of Stephen of England (b. 1105)
• Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1114)
• Raymond II of Tripoli (b. c. 1115)