Year 1154 (MCLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Series of Norman raids in North Africa, including Annaba (Algeria) and the Nile Delta.
April 23 – Nur ad-Din Zangi gains control of Damascus, uniting Syria under one ruler.
(around): Nur ad-Din Zangi establishes the al-Nuri hospital in Damascus.
February 26 - Roger II of Sicily dies at Palermo . He is succeeded by his youngest son, William I of Sicily.
October 25 – Stephen, King of England dies at Dover, and is succeeded by Henry Plantagenet, the son of his cousin Matilda.
December 14 – Pope Adrian IV (also known as Hadrian IV) succeeds Pope Anastasius IV as the 169th pope. Born Nicholas Breakspear, he is the only English pope in history.
December 19 – King Henry II of England, aged 21, is crowned along with his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The Château de Chinon is built by Theobald I, Count of Blois.
The Almohad army conquers the last independent Muslim stronghold in Spain, Granada, after six years of siege.
Birmingham, England, and the Birmingham Bull Ring are founded.
Bosnia becomes an autonomous duchy.
Belgrade is rebuilt by Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is first marked on the world map by Muhammad al-Idrisi.
Arts and culture
January 15 – Muhammad al-Idrisi completes his atlas of the world, the Tabula Rogeriana, which will remain one of the most accurate maps until the Age of Discovery.
April – Gökböri, Muslim emir and general (d. 1233)
November 2 – Constance, Queen of Sicily, wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1198)
November 11 – King Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
Benoît de Sainte-Maure, French poet and troubadour (d. 1173)
Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese shogun (d. 1184)
Sune Sik Sverkersson, prince of Sweden
Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir (d. 1212)
Robert II, Count of Dreux (d. 1218)
February 2 – Viacheslav I of Kiev, prince of Smolensk (b. 1083)
February 20 – Saint Wulfric of Haselbury (b. c. 1080)
February 26 – King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
June 8 – Saint William of York
October 25 – Stephen, King of England (b. 1096)
November 13 – Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (b. c. 1097)
November 18 – Adelaide of Maurienne, queen of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
December 3 – Pope Anastasius IV
