1154
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This article is about the year 1154.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1120s 1130s 1140s – 1150s – 1160s 1170s 1180s |
| Years: | 1151 1152 1153 – 1154 – 1155 1156 1157 |
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| 1154 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1154 MCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1907 |
| Armenian calendar | 603 ԹՎ ՈԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5904 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -690–-689 |
| Bengali calendar | 561 |
| Berber calendar | 2104 |
| English Regnal year | 19 Ste. 1 – 1 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1698 |
| Burmese calendar | 516 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6662–6663 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年十二月十六日 (3790/3850-12-16) — to —
甲戌年十一月廿五日(3791/3851-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 870–871 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1146–1147 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4914–4915 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1210–1211 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1076–1077 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4255–4256 |
| Holocene calendar | 11154 |
| Iranian calendar | 532–533 |
| Islamic calendar | 548–549 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3487 |
| Minguo calendar | 758 before ROC 民前758年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1697 |
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Year 1154 (MCLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By place
[edit] Africa
[edit] Asia
- April 23 – Nur ad-Din Zangi gains control of Damascus, uniting Syria under one ruler.
- (around): Nur ad-Din Zangi establishes the al-Nuri hospital in Damascus.[3]
[edit] Europe
- October 25 – King Stephen of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by Henry Plantagenet, the son of his cousin Matilda. Henry becomes King Henry II of England, aged 21.
- December 14 – Pope Adrian IV (also known as Hadrian IV) succeeds Pope Anastasius IV as the 169th pope. Born Nicholas Breakspear, he is the only English pope in history.
- February 26 - Roger II of Sicily dies at Palermo . He is succeded by his younggest son, William I of Sicily
- A chateau is built at Chinon by Theobald I, count of Blois.
- The Almohad army conquers the last independent Muslim stronghold in Spain, Grenada, after six years of siege.[4]
- Birmingham, England, and the Birmingham Bull Ring are founded.
- Bosnia becomes an autonomous duchy.
- Belgrade is rebuilt by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.
- Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is first marked on the world map by Al Idrisi.
[edit] By topic
[edit] Arts and culture
January 15 – Muhammad al-Idrisi completes his atlas of the world, which will remain one of the most accurate maps until the Age of Discovery.[5]
[edit] Births
- November 11 – King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
- Benoît de Sainte-Maure, French poet and troubadour (d. 1173)
- Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1198)
- Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese shogun (d. 1184
- Sune Sik Sverkersson, prince of Sweden
- Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1212)
[edit] Deaths
- February 20 – Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett (b. c. 1080)
- February 26 – King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
- June 8 – Saint William of York
- August 16 – King Ramiro II of Aragon (b. c. 1075)
- October 25 – King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
- November 18 – Adélaide de Maurienne, queen of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
- December 3 – Pope Anastasius IV
- Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (b. c. 1097)
- Vyacheslav of Kiev, prince of Smolensk (b. 1083)
[edit] References
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.71.
- ^ Abels, Richard Philip; Bernard S. Bachrach (2001). The Normans and their adversaries at war. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. p. 100. ISBN 0851158471. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jOic9EEo3PIC&dq=The+occasion+of+the+coming+of+the+Normans+to+southern+Italy&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
- ^ "Al-Nuri hospital, in Damascus 1154". http://www.shininghistory.com/2009/06/al-nuri-hospitaldamascus-in-1154.html. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.88.
- ^ Matthew, Donald (1992). The Norman kingdom of Sicily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 0521269113. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CQfub3l_ejkC&pg=PA277&lpg=PA277&dq=alduin+norman+saloniki&source=bl&ots=NS00iudqjS&sig=iNJF5GJdzCIV765NxwseRDDr33w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6h0CT7j1O4Or-gb3jrXBAQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=january&f=false.
