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Year 1156 (MCLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Africa

  • Revolt of Sfax against the Norman occupiers and massacre of the Christians found in the city.

    • Asia

  • The Hōgen Rebellion erupts in Japan.

    • Europe

  • January 20 – According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.
  • December 25 – King Sverker the Elder is murdered on his way to church and is soon succeeded as king of Sweden by his rival Eric Jedvardsson.
  • Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy founds and fortifies Moscow.
  • The Privilegium Minus elevates Austria to the status of a duchy ruled by the Babenburgs family.
  • Mosan artists create the Stavelot Triptych, a masterpiece of goldsmithing, as a reliquary to house purported pieces of the True Cross.
  • A rebellion breaks out against William I of Sicily, and the Byzantine Empire, encouraged by Pope Adrian IV, invades Apulia. William II crushes the rebellion, defeats the Byzantine armies at Brindisi, and humbles the Pope at Benevento. The city of Bari is laid to waste for the coming ten years.
  • Raynald of Châtillon sacks Cyprus.

    • Religion

  • The Carmelite Order is established.

    • Births

  • October 27 – Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
  • Hōjō Masako, Izu, Japan, wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo and mother of two other Minamoto shoguns (d. 1225)
  • Matilda of Saxony, daughter of Henry II of England (d. 1189)
  • Minamoto no Noriyori, Japanese general (d. 1193)

    • Deaths

  • January 17 – André de Montbard, fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar
  • January 20 – Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
  • April – William IX, Count of Poitiers (b. 1153)
  • July 20 – Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
  • December 25
  • Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny
  • Sverker the Elder, king of Sweden since 1130 (murdered on his way to church)
  • date unknown
  • Hoel III, Duke of Brittany
  • Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair, High King of Ireland (b. 1088)
  • King Demetrius I of Georgia
  • Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln
  • Mas'ud of Rüm, Seljuk sultan of Rûm
  • Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Japanese general (b. 1096)

    • References

    1156 Wikipedia
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