The decade of the 1150sinart involved some significant events. 1156: Stavelot Triptych created by Mosan artists 1151: Unkei – Japanese sculptor (died...
The 1150s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1150, and ended on December 31, 1159. Battle of Tara: The Byzantines defeat the...
The decade of the 1160s inart involved some significant events. 1166: Henry the Lion has the first bronze statue (a heraldic lion) north of the Alps erected...
corresponding "[year] in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources...
The decade of the 1140s inart involved some significant events. 1145: oldest known Jesse Tree window completed 1148: The illuminated manuscript Parc Abbey...
approaches the city. Zengi raises the siege after hearing rumours of trouble in Mosul. He rushes back with his army to take control. There, Zengi is praised...
In the Battle of Butaiha (or the Battle of Putaha) in July 1158, a Crusader army led by King Baldwin III of Jerusalem won a victory against the forces...
producer. 22 January – Maria da Graça Carmona e Costa [pt], 91, galerist and art collector. 4 February – Rui Patrício, 91, politician, minister of Foreign...
for 25 years between 1150 and 1175. The art historian Walter Oakeshott first identified and named these artists in 1945, referring to them as the Master...
strife between him and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in order that he may dally in western Herefordshire with his mistress, Rosamund Clifford,...
rebellion in Lombardy (Northern Italy). The Diet of Roncaglia is convoked by Frederick I. He mobilises an army of 100,000 men and leaves in June for a...
"Chapter 2: Diarmaid mac Murchadha and the coming of the Anglo-Normans". InArt Cosgrove (ed.). A New History of Ireland, Volume II: Medieval Ireland 1169–1534...
(Barbarossa) is crowned King of Burgundy at Arles. He will repeat the ceremony in 1186. Returning to Germany, he begins proceedings against Henry III (the Lion)...
The massacre lasts about three weeks; on the rumor of a Byzantine fleet in the offing, Raynald gives the order for embarkation. The Crusader ships are...
Bible of the finding in the River Nile of Moses as a baby by the daughter of Pharaoh. The story became a common subject inart, especially from the Renaissance...
proto-Villanovan culture in northern Italy. c. 1100 BC: Mycenaean civilization ends. Start of Greek Dark Ages. Elamite invaders loot art treasures from Mesopotamia...
the Muslims in the peninsula. Spring – Henry the Young King withdraws to the French court, marking the beginning of the Revolt of 1173–74, in which former...
supplies, to make Manuel's march more difficult, and harass the Byzantine army, in order to force it into the Meander Valley. Kilij Arslan II, ruler of the Sultanate...
Universitaäts-bibliothek, MS 222 (1150s–60s) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D. 3. 10 (1170s) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 862 (1150s) Oxford, St John's College...
authority of Nur al-Din, from Edessa in the north to the Hauran to the south. Nur al-Din establishes the Al-Nuri Hospital in Damascus. The hospital has outpatient...
proclaim themselves rulers of Östergötland, in opposition to Canute, which leads to fights for the power in Sweden (until 1173). May 29 – Battle of Monte...
Minar started in India 1190s – Construction begins on the present form of Chartres Cathedral after a fire. 1180s – 1170s – 1160s – 1150s – 1140s – Abbot...
rivals of Venice: Genoa and Pisa. He grants them their own trade quarters in Constantinople, very near the Venetian settlements. May 7 – King William I...
becoming one of the most acclaimed in Europe. Additionally, Laon's communal charter was reestablished in 1130. By the late 1150s, construction on the current...
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