1150

Events

Europe

• Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges.
• King Sverker I of Sweden is deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden.
• The city of Airdrie, Scotland is founded.
• The title Earl of Bedford is created in England.
• Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
• The Mersey Ferry begins running between Liverpool and Birkenhead.
• 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.
• The Tuam is promoted to a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Ireland.
• The Bishopric of Aberdeen is established.
• 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.
• Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg.
• Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux.
• Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences.
• Garcia IV Ramirez ends his reign as King of Navarre.

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

• Leo II 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)
• Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1198)
• Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (d. 1220)
• Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d. 1195)
• Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date; d. 1228)
• Beatrice, Countess of Dia

Deaths

• Emperor Xizong of Jin, third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty
• 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)af:1150

am:1150 እ.ኤ.አ. ar:1150 an:1150 ast:1150 az:1150 bn:১১৫০ map-bms:1150 be:1150 bh:११५० bs:1150 br:1150 bg:1150 ca:1150 cv:1150 cs:1150 co:1150 cy:1150 da:1150 de:1150 et:1150 el:1150 es:1150 eo:1150 eu:1150 fr:1150 fy:1150 gd:1150 gl:1150 ko:1150년 hi:1150 hr:1150. io:1150 bpy:মারি ১১৫০ id:1150 is:1150 it:1150 he:1150 jv:1150 ka:1150 sw:1150 ht:1150 (almanak jilyen) la:1150 lb:1150 lt:XII amžiaus 5-as dešimtmetis#1150 lmo:1150 hu:1150 mk:1150 mi:1150 mr:इ.स. ११५० ms:1150 nah:1150 nl:1150 new:११५० ja:1150年 nap:1150 no:1150 nn:1150 nrm:1150 oc:1150 uz:1150 pi:११५० nds:1150 pl:1150 pt:1150 ksh:Joohr 1150 ro:1150 ru:1150 год sa:११५० sq:1150 scn:1150 simple:1150 sk:1150 sl:1150 sr:1150 su:1150 fi:1150 sv:1150 tt:1150 th:พ.ศ. 1693 tr:1150 uk:1150 vec:1150 zh-yue:1150年