1153

This article is about the year 1153.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1150 1151 1152 – 1153 – 1154 1155 1156

1153 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1153 in poetry

1153 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1153 MCLIII
Ab urbe condita	1906
Armenian calendar	602 ԹՎ ՈԲ
Assyrian calendar	5903
Bahá'í calendar	-691–-690
Bengali calendar	560
Berber calendar	2103
English Regnal year	18 Ste. 1 – 19 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1697
Burmese calendar	515
Byzantine calendar	6661–6662
Chinese calendar	壬申年十二月初五日 (3789/3849-12-5) — to — 癸酉年十二月十五日 (3790/3850-12-15)
Coptic calendar	869–870
Ethiopian calendar	1145–1146
Hebrew calendar	4913–4914
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1209–1210
- Shaka Samvat	1075–1076
- Kali Yuga	4254–4255
Holocene calendar	11153
Iranian calendar	531–532
Islamic calendar	547–548
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3486
Minguo calendar	759 before ROC 民前759年
Thai solar calendar	1696

Year 1153 (MCLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• With the support of Muslim troops, the Normans suppress a rebellion in Sicilian-controled island of Jerba and invade the island of Kerkenna.

Asia

• Taira no Kiyomori assumes control of the Taira clan.
• Islam is introduced to the Maldives.

Middle East

• August 19 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
• Andronicus Comnenus is imprisoned for conspiring against Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.
• Raynald of Chatillon marries Constance of Antioch and becomes Prince of Antioch.

Europe

• January 6 – Henry of Anjou arrives in England hoping to dethrone the reigning monarch, Stephen of England, and replace him with Henry's mother, Empress Maud.
• May 24 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• November 6 – The Treaty of Winchester, under the direction of Theobald of Bec, reconciles Stephen of England and Matilda, ending "The Anarchy" which had occurred during their fight for the throne of England. The treaty grants the throne to Stephen for the duration of his life, but makes Matilda's son, Henry of Anjou, the heir apparent.
• The city of Oberglatt (present-day Switzerland) is first mentioned in written literature.
• Confronted with important financial difficulty due to the expenses of its Spanish crusade, the Republic of Genoa has to sell the city of Tortosa to the count of Barcelona, which had been conquered in 1148 during that same crusade.

By topic

Demography

• Estimation: Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Merv in the Seljuk Empire.

Religion

• July 12 – Pope Anastasius IV succeeds Pope Eugene III as the 168th pope.

Births

• August 17 – William IX, Count of Poitiers (d. 1156)
• Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht (d. 1224)
• Kamo no Chōmei, a Japanese author, poet (waka), and essayist

Deaths

• May 24 – King David I of Scotland (b. 1084)
• July 8 – Pope Eugene III
• August 16 – Bernard de Tremelay, fourth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (at the Siege of Ascalon)
• August 17 – Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. c. 1130)
• August 21 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French churchman (b. 1090)
• December 16 – Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester (b. c. 1100)
• Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford (b. 1115)
• Anna Comnena, Byzantine princess and historian (b. 1083)