1154

This article is about the year 1154.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1151 1152 1153 – 1154 – 1155 1156 1157

1154 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1154 in poetry

1154 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1154 MCLIV
Ab urbe condita	1907
Armenian calendar	603 ԹՎ ՈԳ
Assyrian calendar	5904
Bengali calendar	561
Berber calendar	2104
English Regnal year	19 Ste. 1 – 1 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1698
Burmese calendar	516
Byzantine calendar	6662–6663
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3850 or 3790     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3851 or 3791
Coptic calendar	870–871
Discordian calendar	2320
Ethiopian calendar	1146–1147
Hebrew calendar	4914–4915
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1210–1211
- Shaka Samvat	1076–1077
- Kali Yuga	4255–4256
Holocene calendar	11154
Igbo calendar	154–155
Iranian calendar	532–533
Islamic calendar	548–549
Japanese calendar	Ninpei 4 / Kyūju 1 (久寿元年)
Julian calendar	1154 MCLIV
Korean calendar	3487
Minguo calendar	758 before ROC 民前758年
Seleucid era	1465/1466 AG
Thai solar calendar	1696–1697

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

Events

By place

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.

By topic

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
• August 16 – King Ramiro II of Aragon (b. c. 1075)
• October 25 – Stephen, King of England (b. 1096)
• November 13 – Iziaslav II of Kiev, Prince of Vladimir and Volyn, (b. c. 1097)
• November 18 – Adélaide de Maurienne, queen of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
• December 3 – Pope Anastasius IV