1150

Events

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)

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)