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Year 1154 (MCLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Series of Norman raids in North Africa, including Annaba (Algeria) and the Nile Delta.

    • Asia

  • 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.

    • Europe

  • 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.

    Births

  • 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)

    • Deaths

  • 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

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