1154

1154 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1154
MCLIV
Ab urbe condita1907
Armenian calendar603
ԹՎ ՈԳ
Assyrian calendar5904
Balinese saka calendar1075–1076
Bengali calendar560–561
Berber calendar2104
English Regnal year19 Ste. 1 – 1 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar1698
Burmese calendar516
Byzantine calendar6662–6663
Chinese calendar癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
3851 or 3644
    — to —
甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
3852 or 3645
Coptic calendar870–871
Discordian calendar2320
Ethiopian calendar1146–1147
Hebrew calendar4914–4915
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1210–1211
 - Shaka Samvat1075–1076
 - Kali Yuga4254–4255
Holocene calendar11154
Igbo calendar154–155
Iranian calendar532–533
Islamic calendar548–549
Japanese calendarNinpei 4 / Kyūju 1
(久寿元年)
Javanese calendar1060–1061
Julian calendar1154
MCLIV
Korean calendar3487
Minguo calendar758 before ROC
民前758年
Nanakshahi calendar−314
Seleucid era1465/1466 AG
Thai solar calendar1696–1697
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Water-Bird)
1280 or 899 or 127
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dog)
1281 or 900 or 128
Map of the Kingdom of Sicily (1154)
King William I of Sicily (r. 1154–1166)

Year 1154 (MCLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Levant

  • April 18Nur al-Din, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo, encamps before Damascus and overthrows Mujir al-Din by force with support of the Jewish citizens, who open the eastern gate to the bulk of his army. Mujir flees to the citadel, but capitulates after only a few hours. He is offered his life and the Emirate of Homs. A few weeks later Mujir is suspected of plotting with old friends in Damascus and is exiled to Baghdad. Damascus is annexed to Zangid territory and all of Syria is unified under the authority of Nur al-Din, from Edessa in the north to the Hauran to the south.[1]
  • Nur al-Din establishes the Al-Nuri Hospital in Damascus. The hospital has outpatient consulting rooms, a conference room, prayer hall, vestibules and bathrooms.[2]

Europe

  • February 26 – King Roger II dies at Palermo after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his fourth son William I ("the Bad"') as ruler of Sicily. William appoints Maio of Bari, a man of low birth, to chancellor and his adviser. He pursues his father's policy of strengthening authority over the towns and the Italian nobles, who rally around his cousin Robert III, count of Loritello, in Apulia and Calabria.
  • Autumn – King Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, leads an expedition into Italy for his imperial coronation. He wants to impose his will upon the towns and cities of Lombardy, a region long accustomed to interference from Germany. Frederick encounters stiff resistance to his authority, the Lombard nobles are unwilling to acknowledge his rule and the rights to raise taxes.[3]
  • The Almohad army conquers the last independent Muslim stronghold at Granada (modern Spain), after a six year siege.[4]
  • The Banate of Bosnia becomes an autonomous duchy as part of the Lands of the Hungarian Crown.
  • Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is first marked on the world map by Muhammad al-Idrisi.

England

Africa

By topic

Art and Culture

  • January 15 – Muhammad al-Idrisi, Arab geographer and cartographer, completes his atlas of the world, the Tabula Rogeriana, which will remain one of the most accurate maps until the Age of Discovery.[7]

Religion

  • December 3 – Pope Anastasius IV dies after a 17-month pontificate. He is succeeded by Adrian IV (the only English pope in history) as the 169th pope of the Catholic Church.

Births

  • April 13 – Gökböri, Ayyubid general (d. 1233)
  • November 2 – Constance I, queen of Sicily (d. 1198)
  • November 11 – Sancho I, king of Portugal (d. 1211)
  • October 19 – Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (d. 1212)
  • Kyŏng Taesŭng, Korean military leader (d. 1183)
  • Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese general (d. 1184)
  • Robert II, count of Dreux and Braine (d. 1218)
  • Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, Persian philosopher (d. 1191)
  • Approximate date
    • Agnes of Austria, queen consort of Hungary (d. 1182)
    • Benoît de Sainte-Maure, French poet (d. 1173)

Deaths

  • February 2 – Viacheslav I, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1083)
  • February 20 – Wulfric of Haselbury, English miracle worker
  • February 26Roger II, king of Sicily (b. 1095)[8]
  • March 8 – Stephen of Obazine, French priest (b. 1085)
  • March – Lawrence of Durham, English prelate and poet
  • April 1 or 15 – Al-Zafir, Fatimid caliph (b. 1133)[9]
  • April 3 – Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar, Fatimid vizier
  • June 8 – William of York, English archbishop
  • June 9 – Geoffrey of Canterbury, English abbot
  • June 20 – Ermengol VI ("el de Castilla"), count of Urgell (b. 1096)
  • July 20 – Bernard of Hildesheim, German bishop
  • July 21 – Elizabeth of Hungary, Duchess of Greater Poland
  • August 12 – Zhang Jun, Chinese general and official (b. 1086)
  • September 4 – Gilbert de la Porrée, French theologian
  • October 25Stephen, king of England (b. 1096)
  • November 13 – Iziaslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev
  • November 18 – Adelaide of Maurienne, French queen (b. 1092)
  • December 3 – Anastasius IV, pope of the Catholic Church
  • December 12 – Vicelinus, German bishop (b. 1086)
  • Donnchad I, Earl of Fife (or Duncan), Scottish nobleman (b. 1113)
  • Faidiva of Toulouse, countess consort of Savoy (b. 1133)
  • Hiyya al-Daudi, Andalusian rabbi and composer
  • Jinadattasuri, Indian Jain poet and writer (b. 1075)
  • Lambert of Vence, bishop (b. 1084)
  • Matilda of Anjou, duchess consort of Normandy and abbess (b. 1106)

References

  1. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 278. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. ^ "Al-Nuri hospital, in Damascus 1154". Archived from the original on November 7, 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
  3. ^ Andrew Roberts (2008). Great Commanders of the Medieval World (454–1582), p. 130. ISBN 978-0-85738-589-5.
  4. ^ a b Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cæur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658–1518). Paris: La Dïcouverte; pp. 71, 88.
  5. ^ White, Graeme J. (2000). Restoration and Reform, 1153–1165: Recovery From Civil War in England, p. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-55459-6.
  6. ^ Abels, Richard Philip; Bernard S. Bachrach (2001). The Normans and their adversaries at war. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. p. 100. ISBN 0-85115-847-1.
  7. ^ Matthew, Donald (1992). The Norman kingdom of Sicily. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 0-521-26911-3.
  8. ^ "Roger II | Facts & Biography". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  9. ^ Öztürk, Murat (2013). "Zâfir-Biemrillâh". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 44 (Yusuf – Zwemer) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-975-389-785-3.