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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1153 1154 1155 – 1156 – 1157 1158 1159

1156 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

1156 in poetry v • d • e

1156 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1156 MCLVI
Ab urbe condita	1909
Armenian calendar	605 ԹՎ ՈԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-688 – -687
Bengali calendar	563
Berber calendar	2106
Buddhist calendar	1700
Burmese calendar	518
Byzantine calendar	6664 – 6665
Chinese calendar	乙亥年十二月初七日 (3792/3852-12-7) — to — 丙子年十一月十七日 (3793/3853-11-17)
Coptic calendar	872 – 873
Ethiopian calendar	1148 – 1149
Hebrew calendar	4916 – 4917
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1211 – 1212
- Shaka Samvat	1078 – 1079
- Kali Yuga	4257 – 4258
Holocene calendar	11156
Iranian calendar	534 – 535
Islamic calendar	550 – 551
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3489
Thai solar calendar	1699
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• January 20—According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
• Prince Yuriy Dolgorukiy founds and fortifies Moscow.
• The Carmelite Order is established.
• The Hōgen Rebellion erupts in Japan.
• The Privilegium Minus elevates Austria to the status of a duchy ruled by the Babenburgs family.
• Mosan artists create the Stavelot Triptych, a masterpiece of goldsmithing, as a reliquary to house purported pieces of the True Cross.
• A rebellion breaks out against William II of Sicily, and the Byzantine Empire, encouraged by Pope Hadrian, invades Apulia. William II crushes the rebellion, defeats the Byzantine armies at Brindisi, and humbles the Pope at Benevento.
• Reginald of Chatillon sacks Cyprus.

[edit] Births

• October 27—Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
• Matilda of Saxony, daughter of Henry II of England (d. 1189)
• Minamoto no Noriyori, Japanese general (d. 1193)

[edit] Deaths

• January 17—André de Montbard, fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• January 20—Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
• April – William IX, Count of Poitiers (b. 1153)
• July 20—Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
• December 25
  • Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny
  • King Sverker I of Sweden
• date unknown
  • Hoel III, Duke of Brittany
  • Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, High King of Ireland (b. 1088)
  • King Demetre I of Georgia
  • Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln
  • Mas'ud of Rüm, Seljuk sultan of Rûm
  • Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Japanese general (b. 1096)