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Year 1150 (MCL) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Europe

  • Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
  • A Benedictine priory is founded at Birkenhead, England, resulting in the first recorded Mersey Ferry.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in the Low Countries.
  • Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences.
  • Foundation of Dryburgh Abbey by Hugh de Morville, Lord of Cunningham the Constable of Scotland
  • The first doctorate degree is awarded in Paris, France.
  • Battle of Tara, fought between the Byzantine Empire and Serbian Grand Principality backed by the Kingdom of Hungary.

    • 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

  • July-August – Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1198)
  • date unknown
  • Leo I, King 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)
  • Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (d. 1220)
  • Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d. 1195)
  • Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date; d. 1228)
  • approximate date - Umadevi, Indian queen and general (d. 1218)

    • Deaths

  • January 9 – Emperor Xizong of Jin, third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (b. 1119)
  • November 21 – García Ramírez of Navarre "the Restorer" (b. c.1112)
  • date unknown
  • 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)

    • References

    1150 Wikipedia
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