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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1120s 1130s 1140s – 1150s – 1160s 1170s 1180s |
| Years: | 1151 1152 1153 – 1154 – 1155 1156 1157 |
| 1154 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1154 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1154 MCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1907 |
| Armenian calendar | 603 ԹՎ ՈԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -690 – -689 |
| Bengali calendar | 561 |
| Berber calendar | 2104 |
| 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 | 1209 – 1210 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1076 – 1077 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4255 – 4256 |
| Holocene calendar | 11154 |
| Iranian calendar | 532 – 533 |
| Islamic calendar | 548 – 549 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3487 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1697 |
[edit] Events
- April 23 – Nur ad-Din gains control of Damascus, uniting Syria under one ruler.
- 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.
- Sweden's King Eric introduces Christianity to Finland.
- A chateau is built at Chinon by Theobald I, count of Blois.
- Muhammad al-Idrisi completes his atlas of the world, which will remain one of the most accurate maps until the Age of Discovery.
- 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] 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, reigned 1134—1142)
- Vyacheslav of Kiev, prince of Smolensk (b. 1083, reigned 1113–1125)
