1154

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Events

April 23 - Nur ad-Din gains control of Damascus, uniting Syria under one ruler.
October 25 - King Stephen of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by his adopted son Henry Plantagenet, who becomes King Henry II of England, aged 21.
December 14 — Pope Adrian IV (also known as Hadrian IV) succeeds Pope Anastasius IV as the 169th pope. Born Nicholas Breakspear, he is the only English pope in history.
Sweden's King Eric introduces Christianity to Finland (see History of Finland).
A chateau is built at Chinon by Theobald I, count of Blois.
William I becomes king of Sicily.
Muhammad al-Idrisi completes his atlas of the world, which will remain one of the most accurate maps until the Age of Discovery.
Birmingham, England, and the Birmingham Bull Ring are founded.
Bosnia becomes an autonomous duchy.
Belgrade is rebuilt by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is first marked on the world map by Al Idrisi.
King Valdemar the Great of Denmark is crowned.

Births

November 11 — King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
Benoît de Sainte-Maure, French poet and troubadour (d. 1173)
Queen Constance of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1198)
Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese shogun (d. 1184
Sune Sik Sverkersson, prince of Sweden
Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1212)

Deaths

February 20 — Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett (b. c. 1080)
February 26 — King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
August 16 — King Ramiro II of Aragon (b. c. 1075)
October 25 — King Stephen of England (b. 1096)
November 18 — Adélaide de Maurienne, queen of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
December 3 — Pope Anastasius IV
Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (b. c. 1097, reigned 1134—1142)
Vyacheslav of Kiev, prince of Smolensk (b. 1083, reigned 1113–1125)

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