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This article is about the year 1144.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1110s 1120s 1130s – 1140s – 1150s 1160s 1170s |
| Years: | 1141 1142 1143 – 1144 – 1145 1146 1147 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1144 MCXLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1897 |
| Armenian calendar | 593 ԹՎ ՇՂԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5894 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -700–-699 |
| Bengali calendar | 551 |
| Berber calendar | 2094 |
| English Regnal year | 9 Ste. 1 – 10 Ste. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1688 |
| Burmese calendar | 506 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6652–6653 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸亥年十一月廿五日 (3780/3840-11-25) — to —
甲子年十二月初六日(3781/3841-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 860–861 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1136–1137 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4904–4905 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1200–1201 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1066–1067 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4245–4246 |
| Holocene calendar | 11144 |
| Iranian calendar | 522–523 |
| Islamic calendar | 538–539 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3477 |
| Minguo calendar | 768 before ROC 民前768年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1687 |
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Year 1144 (MCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By area
[edit] Africa
- Death of the Catalan mercenary Reverter de La Guardia, main Almoravid commander in the Maghrid al-Aqsa. His elimination opens the regions to the troops of the Almohads.[1]
[edit] Asia
- December 24 – The County of Edessa falls to Zengi of Mosul (see Siege of Edessa).
- Manuel I Comnenus brings Raymond, Prince of Antioch, under Byzantine influence.
[edit] Europe
- Louis VII capitulates to Pope Celestine II and so earns the pope's absolution.
- Normandy comes under Angevin control under Geoffrey of Anjou.
- The city of Montauban, France, is founded.
- The city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, is first mentioned in historical records.[2]
- Giordano Pierleoni founds the revolutionary Commune of Rome.
- Failed Byzantine attempt to reconquer Malta.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Religion
- March 12 – Pope Lucius II succeeds Pope Celestine II as the 166th pope.
- March 22 – The first example of an anti-Semitic blood libel is recorded in England, in connection with the murder of William of Norwich.
- The Priory in Lesmahagow is founded by Benedictine monks.
- First Templars stronghold is established in the kingdom of León and Castile.[3]
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- March 8 – Pope Celestine II
- March 22 – William of Norwich, child murder victim
- September – Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
[edit] References
- ^ Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, pp.76
- ^ Daniel Mallinus, La Yougoslavie, Éd. Artis-Historia, Brussels, 1988, D/1988/0832/27, p. 37–39.
- ^ Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5 37: 31-47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3679149. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
