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{{Year nav|1150}}
{{Year in various calendars|1150}}
{{Year article header|1150}}

== Events ==
* [[Åhus]], [[Sweden]] gains city privileges
* City of [[Airdrie, North Lanarkshire|Airdrie, Scotland]] founded
* King [[Sverker I of Sweden]] deposed and succeeded by [[Eric IX of Sweden]]
* [[Albrecht the Bear]] inhabits [[Brandenburg]]
* [[Peter the Lombard]] publishes ''Sentences''
* [[University of Paris]], now known as the Sorbonne, founded
* During [[Crusades]], city of [[Ashkelon]] fortified with 53 towers by [[Fatimid Caliphate|Fatimid]] rulers
* [[List of Earldoms|Earl of Bedford]] created
* [[Cubbie Roo's Castle]] built on [[Wyre, Orkney]]
* [[Mersey Ferry]] begins running between [[Liverpool, England|Liverpool]] and [[Birkenhead]]
* [[Neuruppin]] city founded in [[Brandenburg]], [[Germany]]
* [[Rinteln]] city founded in [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]]
* [[Middle Dutch]] begins to be spoken in what is now [[Benelux]]
* [[Joscelin II of Edessa]] taken prisoner during [[Second Crusade]]
* [[Archdiocese of Tuam (Roman Catholic)|Tuam]] promoted to a [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] [[Archdiocese]], [[Ireland]]
* Earliest textual reference made to [[Roma people|Gypsies]] working as [[music]]ians (in [[Constantinople]])
* [[Castle Rising (castle)|Castle Rising]] built in [[Norfolk]], [[England]] by [[William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel]]
* [[Garcia IV Ramirez]] ends reign as [[List of Navarrese monarchs|King of Navarre]]
* [[Bishopric]] of [[Aberdeen]] established
* [[Christian Malone]] writes Irish Chronology [[Chronicum Scotorum]]
* [[Christchurch Priory]] founded

== Births ==
* [[Leo II of Armenia]] (d. [[1229]]).
* [[William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber]] (approximate date; d. [[1211]]).
* [[Rosamund Clifford]], [[mistress]] of [[Henry II of England]] (approximate date; d. [[1176]]).
* [[Alix of France]], daughter of [[Louis VII of France]] (d. [[1198]]).
* [[Saxo Grammaticus]], [[Denmark|Danish]] [[historian]] (d. [[1220]]).
* [[Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut]] (d. [[1195]]).
* [[Stephen Langton]], [[Archbishop]] of [[Canterbury]] (approximate date; d. [[1228]]).
* [[Beatrice]], [[Countess]] of [[Dia]].

== Deaths ==
* [[Emperor Xizong of Jin]], the third ruler of the [[Jurchen Jin Dynasty]]
* [[Suryavarman II]], [[Khmer Empire|Khmer]] king, builder of [[Angkor Wat]]
* [[Barisan of Ibelin]], figure in the [[crusade]]r [[kingdom of Jerusalem]]
* [[Pribislav of Brandenburg]], last king of the [[Hevelli]] (b. c. 1075)

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