1150

Years
Millennium
2nd millennium
Centuries
Decades
Years
1150 by topic
Leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1150 in poetry
1150 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1150
MCL
Ab urbe condita1903
Armenian calendar599
ԹՎ ՇՂԹ
Assyrian calendar5900
Balinese saka calendar1071–1072
Bengali calendar556–557
Berber calendar2100
English Regnal year15 Ste. 1 – 16 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar1694
Burmese calendar512
Byzantine calendar6658–6659
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3847 or 3640
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
3848 or 3641
Coptic calendar866–867
Discordian calendar2316
Ethiopian calendar1142–1143
Hebrew calendar4910–4911
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1206–1207
 - Shaka Samvat1071–1072
 - Kali Yuga4250–4251
Holocene calendar11150
Igbo calendar150–151
Iranian calendar528–529
Islamic calendar544–545
Japanese calendarKyūan 6
(久安６年)
Javanese calendar1056–1057
Julian calendar1150
MCL
Korean calendar3483
Minguo calendar762 before ROC
民前762年
Nanakshahi calendar−318
Seleucid era1461/1462 AG
Thai solar calendar1692–1693
Tibetan calendarས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Snake)
1276 or 895 or 123
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Iron-Horse)
1277 or 896 or 124
Nur al-Din, ruler of Aleppo (1118–1174)

Year 1150 (MCL) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

  • Battle of Tara: The Byzantines defeat the Serbian-Hungarian army under Grdeša, count (župan) of Travunija, near the snow-covered Tara River. The Serbs are overpowered, and Grand Prince Uroš II is forced to accept the peace agreement made by Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos). Uroš is succeeded by his brother Desa, who becomes co-ruler of the Principality of Serbia (until 1153).[1]

Levant

  • Spring – Joscelin II, count of Edessa, on his way to Antioch is separated from his escort and falls into the hands of some Turcoman free-booters. Nur al-Din, ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo, heard of Joscelin's capture and sends a squadron of cavalry to take him from his captors. Joscelin is led before a hostile crowd and publicly blinded. Nur al-Din puts him in prison in the Citadel of Aleppo.[2]
  • Battle of Aintab: A Crusader army led by King Baldwin III repels the attacks of Nur al-Din near Aintab. Baldwin safely evacuates the Christian residents of the County of Edessa, which is captured by the Zangids.[3]
  • The city of Ascalon is fortified with 53 towers by order of the 17-year-old Caliph Al-Zafir, as it is the most strategic frontier fortress of the Fatimid Caliphate.[4]

Europe

  • February 8 – Battle of Flochberg: German forces under Henry VI defeat the army of the House of Welf at Bopfingen. At the same time, King Conrad III besieges Welf forces at Braunschweig in Saxony, but he lifts the siege when confronted by Henry the Lion.[5]
  • The University of Paris (known as the Sorbonne) is founded. The first doctorate degree is awarded in Paris.[6]
  • The city of Rinteln is founded on the northern bank of the Weser River in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).

Britain

  • November 10 – Dryburgh Abbey located in the Scottish Borders is founded by Lord Hugh de Morville.
  • Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre (Orkney Islands) and is first mentioned in the Orkneyinga Saga.
  • Christchurch Priory located in Hampshire is founded by Earl Baldwin de Redvers.
  • The Irish Chronology (Chronicon Scotorum) is written (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

  • The 15-year-old King Inge I (the Hunchback) of Norway calls for a meeting at Bergen of all religious leaders in anticipation that the English cardinal Nicholas Breakspear will find an archbishopric at Trondheim.
  • Peter Lombard, a French scholastic theologian, publishes the Four Books of Sentences, which becomes the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities.[7]
  • The temple at Angkor Wat ("Capital of Temples") is completed in the Khmer Empire (modern Cambodia).


Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Joannes Cinnamus (1976). Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, p. 87. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-52155-0.
  2. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 267. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. ^ Smail, R. C. (1956). Crusading Warfare 1097–1193, p. 160. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 1-56619-769-4.
  4. ^ Gore, Rick (January 2001). "Ancient Ashkelon". National Geographic.
  5. ^ Knödler, Julia (2010). Germany: Narrative (1125–1250), p. 178. Clifford J. (ed). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, pp. 176–185. New York: Oxford University Press.
  6. ^ Nobel, Keith Allan (1994). Changing Doctoral Degrees: An International Perspective. Society for Research into Higher Education. ISBN 0335192130.
  7. ^ Joseph Rickaby (1908). Scholasticism. A. Constable. p. 23.
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