1150 Explained

Events

Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges.
King Sverker I of Sweden is deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden.
The city of Airdrie, Scotland is founded.
The title Earl of Bedford is created in England.
Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
The Mersey Ferry begins running between Liverpool and Birkenhead.
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.
The Tuam is promoted to a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Ireland.
The Bishopric of Aberdeen is established.
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.
Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg.
Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux.
Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences.
Garcia IV Ramirez ends his reign as King of Navarre.

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.

The temple at Angkor Wat is completed in Khmer (present-day Cambodia).