1150
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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)
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