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Year 1145 (MCXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Africa

  • Conquest of North Africa by the Almohads
  • The Banu Zayan of Tlemcen submit to the arriving Almohad armies.
  • The Merinids of Maghrib al-Aqsa attempt to resist the Almohads but are forced into the desert areas around the Tafilalt.
  • Oran falls to the Almohads.
  • Successful Norman raid against the Tripolitania region.

    • Asia

  • Estimation: Merv in the Seljuk Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

    • Europe

  • February 15 – Pietro Bernardo Paganelli of Montemagno, Calci is elected as Pope Eugene III, and succeeds Pope Lucius II as the 167th pope.
  • Arnold of Brescia joins the revolutionary Commune of Rome, where he becomes its intellectual leader for the next decade.

    • Arts and culture

  • Kim Pusik and his team of historians finish the compilation of the Korean historical text Samguk Sagi.
  • Construction begins on Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France.
  • Woburn Abbey is founded.

    • Religion

  • December 1 – Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade. At Christmas Louis VII of France announces his intention of making a pilgrimage which becomes part of the Crusade.

    • Births

  • Maria of Antioch, Byzantine Empress (d. 1182)
  • Marie de Champagne, Countess of Champagne (d. 1198)
  • Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia (d. 1167)
  • Ibn Jubayr, geographer, traveler and poet (d. 1217)
  • Manuel Komnenos, son of Andronikos Komnenos (d. 1185)
  • Al-Adil I, Ayyubid-Egyptian general and ruler (d. 1218)
  • Amalric II of Jerusalem (d. 1205)
  • Sayyid Muhammad Al-Makki, ancestor of the Bukkuri Sayyids (d. 1246)
  • date unknown
  • Ruben III, Prince of Armenia (d. 1187)
  • Aoife MacMurrough, Irish noble, Lady of Leinster (d. 1188)
  • probable
  • Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem
  • Pope Gregory IX (d. 1241)

    • Deaths

  • February 15 – Pope Lucius II
  • October 6 – Baldwin, archbishop of Pisa
  • Zhang Zeduan, Chinese painter (b. 1085)

    • References

    1145 Wikipedia
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