1156
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century · 12th century · 13th century |
| Decades: | 1120s · 1130s · 1140s · 1150s · 1160s · 1170s · 1180s |
| Years: | 1153 · 1154 · 1155 · 1156 · 1157 · 1158 · 1159 |
| 1156 by topic | |
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| 1156 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1156 MCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1909 |
| Armenian calendar | 605 ԹՎ ՈԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5906 |
| Bengali calendar | 563 |
| Berber calendar | 2106 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Hen. 2 – 3 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1700 |
| Burmese calendar | 518 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6664–6665 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3852 or 3792 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3853 or 3793 |
| Coptic calendar | 872–873 |
| Discordian calendar | 2322 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1148–1149 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4916–4917 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1212–1213 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1077–1078 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4256–4257 |
| Holocene calendar | 11156 |
| Igbo calendar | 156–157 |
| Iranian calendar | 534–535 |
| Islamic calendar | 550–551 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyūju 3 / Hōgen 1 (保元元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1062–1063 |
| Julian calendar | 1156 MCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3489 |
| Minguo calendar | 756 before ROC 民前756年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −312 |
| Seleucid era | 1467/1468 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1698–1699 |
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Year 1156 (MCLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Africa
Asia
- The Hōgen Rebellion erupts in Japan.
Europe
- January 20 – According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
- December 25 – King Sverker the Elder is murdered on his way to church and is soon succeeded as king of Sweden by his rival Eric Jedvardsson.
- Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy founds and fortifies Moscow.
- The Privilegium Minus elevates Austria to the status of a duchy ruled by the Babenburgs family.
- Mosan artists create the Stavelot Triptych, a masterpiece of goldsmithing, as a reliquary to house purported pieces of the True Cross.
- A rebellion breaks out against William I of Sicily, and the Byzantine Empire, encouraged by Pope Adrian IV, invades Apulia. William II crushes the rebellion, defeats the Byzantine armies at Brindisi, and humbles the Pope at Benevento. The city of Bari is laid to waste for the coming ten years.[2]
- Raynald of Châtillon sacks Cyprus.
By topic
Religion
- The Carmelite Order is established.
Births
Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse born on October 27
- October 27 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- Hōjō Masako, Izu, Japan, wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo and mother of two other Minamoto shoguns (d. 1225)
- Matilda of Saxony, daughter of Henry II of England (d. 1189)
- Minamoto no Noriyori, Japanese general (d. 1193)
Deaths
- January 17 – André de Montbard, fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- January 20 – Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
- April – William IX, Count of Poitiers (b. 1153)
- July 20 – Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
- December 25
- Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny
- Sverker the Elder, king of Sweden since 1130 (murdered on his way to church)
- date unknown
References
- ↑ Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" (PDF). Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Kleinhenz, Christopher (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 0-415-93930-5.
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