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Year 1149 (MCXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • June 29 – Battle of Inab: Nur ad-Din, atabeg of Aleppo, defeats the Principality of Antioch.
  • July 15 – Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem consecrated after reconstruction.
  • July 28 – The leaders of the Second Crusade take the decision to retreat.

    • Europe

  • April 8 – Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
  • October 24 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona conquers Lleida from the Almoravids after a siege of seven months as well as Fraga.
  • The Castle of Carimate is destroyed.
  • Åhus, in present-day Sweden, gains city right.

    • Markets

  • Genoa grants the benefits of a part of the city's fiscal revenues to a consortium of creditor called compera, the first example of the consolidation of public debt in medieval Europe.

    • Births

  • Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1214)
  • Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Persian theologian and philosopher (d. 1209)
  • Margaritus of Brindisi, Grand Admiral of Sicily (d. 1197)

    • Deaths

  • January 15 – Berengaria of Barcelona, queen consort of Castile (b. 1116)
  • April 24 – Petronille de Chemillé, abbess of Fontevrault
  • June 29 – Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. c. 1115)
  • August 28 – Mu'in ad-Din Unur, regent of Damascus

    • References

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