Centuries:	11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  - 1150s -  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1150 1151 1152 - 1153 - 1154 1155 1156

1153 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1153 in poetry v • d • e

1153 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1153 MCLIII
Ab urbe condita	1906
Armenian calendar	602 ԹՎ ՈԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-691 – -690
Berber calendar	2103
Buddhist calendar	1697
Burmese calendar	515
Byzantine calendar	6661 – 6662
Chinese calendar	壬申年十二月初五日 (3789/3849-12-5) — to — 癸酉年十二月十五日 (3790/3850-12-15)
Coptic calendar	869 – 870
Ethiopian calendar	1145 – 1146
Hebrew calendar	4913 – 4914
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1208 – 1209
- Shaka Samvat	1075 – 1076
- Kali Yuga	4254 – 4255
Holocene calendar	11153
Iranian calendar	531 – 532
Islamic calendar	547 – 548
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3486
Thai solar calendar	1696
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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events

• January 6 — Henry of Anjou arrives in England.
• May 24 — Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• July 12 — Pope Anastasius IV succeeds Pope Eugene III as the 168th pope.
• August 19 - Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
• November 6 — Treaty of Winchester (also known as Treaty of Wallingford): Theobald of Bec reconciles Stephen of England and Matilda, ending "The Anarchy" and allowing Matilda's son Henry of Anjou to succeed as king (in 1154).
• The Angevin dynasty takes control of Gascony and Guyenne.
• Andronicus Comnenus is imprisoned for conspiring against Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus.
• Raynald of Chatillon marries Constance of Antioch and becomes Prince of Antioch.
• Taira no Kiyomori assumes control of the Taira clan.
• The city of Oberglatt (present-day Switzerland) is first mentioned in written literature.
• Estimation: Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Merv in the Seljuk Empire.[1]
• Islam is introduced to the Maldives.

Births

• August 17 — William, Count of Poitiers (d. 1156)
• Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht (d. 1224)
• Kamo no Chomei
• William II, King of Sicily (d. 1189)

Deaths

• May 24 — King David I of Scotland (b. 1084)
• July 8 — Pope Eugene III
• August 16 — Bernard de Tremelay, fourth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (at the Siege of Ascalon)
• August 17 — Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England (b. c. 1130)
• August 21 — Bernard of Clairvaux, French churchman (b. 1090)
• December 16 — Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester^[1] (b. c. 1100)
• Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford (b. 1115)
• Anna Comnena, Byzantine princess and historian (b. 1083)

References

1. ^ thePeerage.com - Person Page 407