1150 To 11691150c - Americas The original Hopi territory in the southwest encompassed some 225,000 sq. miles around villages established about this time.
c - Suryavarman II, Khmer ruler, dies.He commissioned the building of Angkor Wat, possibly the largest religious monument in the world. He traded elephant tusks, rhinoceros horns and kingfisher feathers for gold.
x - England Henry becomes Duke of Normandy.
1151x - Iceland The first known fire and plague insurance was offered.
x - England Geoffrey of Monmouth appointed to bishopric of St. Asaph in Wales, but never actually visits there.
x - England War in Normandy.
sep 07 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38.
1152x - England Theobald refuses to crown Eustace.
x - Ireland The Synod of Kells.
mar 04 - Frederick Barbarossa was chosen as emperor and united the two factions which emerged in Germany after the death of Henry V.
may 04 - Henry Plantagenet l.Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1153x - A chicken restaurant, the world's oldest extant eatery, opened in Kai-Feng,
jan 00 - England Henry l.Henry II of England invades England.
feb 15 - Japan Taira Tadanori dies and Kiyomori rises to power in the Taira family.
mar 23 - Treaty of Konstanz between Frederik I Barbarossa and Pope Eugene III.
may 24 - Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland.
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jul 08 - Italian Pope Eugene III r.1145-1153, Bernardo, dies.
aug 17 - England Stephen's son Eustace dies.
nov 06 - England Treaty of Wallingford.
1154x - Thomas a Becket was given the high office of Chancellor to the King, Henry II.
feb 26 - William the bad succeeds his father, Roger II r.1101-1154, as King of Sicily on his death at 60.
spr 26 - Henry returns to Normandy.
dec 08 - England Henry lands in England.
dec 19 - England Henry II of the Angevin dynasty was crowned King of England.
1155x - England Bridgnorth castle surrendered to Henry.
x - A map of western China was printed and is the oldest known printed map.
x - England Henry takes Scarborough Castle and Bridgnorth.
x - Master (Robert) Wace completes Roman de Brut, a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth Historia Regum Britanniaep.1136, in French. He dedicated his work to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of Henry II, and is remembered as being the first writer to introduce the concept of the "Round Table" to the Arthurian cycle.
feb 28 - England Henry the Young King is born.
jun 18 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederik I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor.
nov 11 - Alfonso VIII, the Noble One, king of Castilia, is born.
1156x - Henry captured Anjou.
x - The first foreign exchange contracts were issued and allowed the repayment of Genoese pounds debt with Byzantine bezants.
aug 10 - Japan The Hôgen disturbance Hôgen no Ran occurs in Kyôto; Minamoto Tameyoshi and Tametomo are attacked in the Shirakawa-den by Minamoto Yoshitomo and Taira Kiyomori.
aug 30 - Japan Tameyoshi and Tametomo are defeated.
1157x - The Bank of Venice issued the first government bonds to raise funds for was with Constantinople.
x - England Malcolm IV surrenders land to Henry.
sep 08 - England Richard I of England born at Oxford
1158jan 11 - Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king.
nov 11 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy and restores Imperial rule.
1159x - Regulation of University of Paris.
sep 01 - Pope Adrian IV, Nicole Breakspear, only English pope 1154-1159, dies.
sep 07 - Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope.
1160c - Chretien de Troyes, the medieval romance writer, makes his five contributions to the Arthurian cycle during this period. His Arthurian poems are: Eric et Enide, Cliges, Le Chevalier de la Charette The Knight of the Cart or Lancelot, Yvain Le Chevalier au Lion or The Knight with the Lion, andPerceval Le Conte del Graal or The Story of the Graal. u.c.1190
c - Series of invasions by Crusaders into Egypt u.c.1170
c - Giovanni Lotario de' Conti born, served as Pope Innocent III.
x - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria conquers Wends of the lower Elbe. u.1162
x - Ma Yuan, an academic painter, made his Southern Song masterpiece "Banquet by Lantern Light."d.1225
feb 03 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa hurtled prisoners, including children, at the Italian city of Crema, forcing its surrender.
may 18 - Erik IX Helgi, The Saint, King of Sweden, dies.
11611162x - This date was given by Marco Polo for the Tartars settling around the area south of Lake Baikal and forming a city called Karakoram.
x - Genghis Khan is born in the Hentiyn Nuruu mountains north of Ulan Bator. d.1227His given name was Temujin, "the ironsmith," and seized control over 5 million square miles that covered China, Iran, Iraq, Burma, Vietnam, and most of Korea and Russia.
jun 03 - England Thomas a Becket is consummated as Archbiship of Cantebury.
1163x - Amaury, King of Jerusalem. u.1174
1164jan 27 - Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies.
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nov 02 - Thomas a Becket flees England.
1165x - Scotland William I 'the Lion' becomes king of the Scots.
nov 23 - Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome.
nov 25 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa visits Utrecht.
1166dec 24 - King John of England, is born.
1167feb 11 - Japan Taira Kiyomori is named Grand Minister of State (dajodaijin) and rules jointly with Go-Shirakawa.
dec 01 - Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League.
1169x - Saladin conquers Egypt
x - The heyday of the Kiyomori Clan in Japan. u.1181
mar 23 - Shirkuh, Kurd general/vizier of Cairo/Saladin's uncle, dies.
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