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Year 1140 (MCXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • December 21 – Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg, the stronghold of Welfs.
  • Henry Jasomirgott is made count palatine of the Rhine.
  • The town of Lanark in Scotland is made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland.
  • Marburg becomes a town.
  • The Assizes of Ariano are enacted by Roger II of Sicily.
  • Roger II of Sicily places the practice of medicine under royal control.

    • Religion

  • June 3 – Pierre Abelard is condemned for heresy by a church court in Sens, France.
  • September 8 – Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi, having completed the Kuzari, arrives in Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.
  • The first Cistercian monastery in Spain is founded in Fitero. The order enjoys a rapid expansion in the region in the following 15 years.
  • Camaldolite monk Gratian founds the science of Canon law with the publication of the Decretum Gratiani.

    • Births

  • May 28 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
  • Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (d. 1160)

    • Deaths

  • January 12 – Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia
  • February 6 – Thurstan, Archbishop of York
  • February 14
  • Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia
  • Leo I, Prince of Armenia
  • September 15 – Adelaide of Hungary, Duchess of Bohemia
  • date unknown – Kitti Sri Megha, King of Dakkinadesa, Sri Lankan

    • References

    1140 Wikipedia
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