1150

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

Events

By place

Europe

• Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
• A Benedictine priory is founded at Birkenhead, England, resulting in the first recorded Mersey Ferry.
• Christchurch Priory is founded in Dorset, England.
• Castle Rising is built in Norfolk, England by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
• The University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, is founded.
• Christian Malone writes his Irish Chronology (Chronicum Scotorum).
• The city of Neuruppin is founded in Brandenburg, Germany.
• The city of Rinteln is founded in Lower Saxony, Germany.
• Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in the Low Countries.
• Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences.
• Foundation of Dryburgh Abbey by Hugh de Morville, Lord of Cunningham the Constable of Scotland
• The first doctorate degree is awarded in Paris, France.
• Battle of Tara, fought between the Byzantine Empire and Serbian Grand Principality backed by the Kingdom of Hungary.

Middle East

• Joscelin II of Edessa is taken prisoner during the Second Crusade.
• The city of Ashkelon is fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers.
• The earliest textual reference is made to Gypsies working as musicians in Constantinople.

Asia

• The temple at Angkor Wat is completed in Khmer (present-day Cambodia).

Births

• July-August – Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1198)
• date unknown
  • Leo I, King of Armenia (d. 1229)
  • William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber (approximate date; d. 1211)
  • Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (approximate date; d. 1176)
  • Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (d. 1220)
  • Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d. 1195)
  • Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date; d. 1228)
• approximate date - Umadevi, Indian queen and general (d. 1218)

Deaths

• January 9 – Emperor Xizong of Jin, third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (b. 1119)
• April 8 – Gertrude of Babenberg, Duchess of Bohemia (b. c.1118)
• November 21 – García Ramírez of Navarre "the Restorer" (b. c.1112)
• date unknown
  • Suryavarman II, Khmer king, builder of Angkor Wat
  • Barisan of Ibelin, figure in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
  • Pribislav of Brandenburg, last king of the Hevelli (b. c. 1075)

References