1150

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century · 12th century · 13th century
Decades:	1120s · 1130s · 1140s · 1150s · 1160s · 1170s · 1180s
Years:	1147 · 1148 · 1149 · 1150 · 1151 · 1152 · 1153

1150 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1150 in poetry

1150 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1150 MCL
Ab urbe condita	1903
Armenian calendar	599 ԹՎ ՇՂԹ
Assyrian calendar	5900
Bengali calendar	557
Berber calendar	2100
English Regnal year	15 Ste. 1 – 16 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1694
Burmese calendar	512
Byzantine calendar	6658–6659
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 3846 or 3786     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 3847 or 3787
Coptic calendar	866–867
Discordian calendar	2316
Ethiopian calendar	1142–1143
Hebrew calendar	4910–4911
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1206–1207
- Shaka Samvat	1071–1072
- Kali Yuga	4250–4251
Holocene calendar	11150
Igbo calendar	150–151
Iranian calendar	528–529
Islamic calendar	544–545
Japanese calendar	Kyūan 6 (久安６年)
Javanese calendar	1056–1057
Julian calendar	1150 MCL
Korean calendar	3483
Minguo calendar	762 before ROC 民前762年
Nanakshahi calendar	−318
Seleucid era	1461/1462 AG
Thai solar calendar	1692–1693

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