1150

Events

• Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges
• City of Airdrie, Scotland founded
• King Sverker I of Sweden deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden
• Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg
• Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences
• University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, founded
• During Crusades, city of Ashkelon fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers
• Earl of Bedford created
• Cubbie Roo's Castle built on Wyre, Orkney
• Mersey Ferry begins running between Liverpool and Birkenhead
• Neuruppin city founded in Brandenburg, Germany
• Rinteln city founded in Lower Saxony, Germany
• Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux
• Joscelin II of Edessa taken prisoner during Second Crusade
• Tuam promoted to a Metropolitan Archdiocese, Ireland
• Earliest textual reference made to Gypsies working as musicians (in Constantinople)
• Castle Rising built in Norfolk, England by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
• Garcia IV Ramirez ends reign as King of Navarre
• Bishopric of Aberdeen established
• Christian Malone writes Irish Chronology Chronicum Scotorum
• Christchurch Priory founded

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, the 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)