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

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  Nur al-Din, ruler of Aleppo (1118–1174)

1150 (MCL) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1150th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 150th year of the 2nd millennium, the 50th year of the 12th century, and the 1st year of the 1150s decade. As of the start of 1150, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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)