information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1151: Shika Wakashū, a Japanese imperial poetry anthology, begun jongleur...
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...
in Anglo-Norman Jean Bodel Undated troubadors Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s) Marcabru (fl. 1140s and 1150s)...
who was active in the 1150s (the date of her known composition is uncertain). The latest was either Garsenda of Forcalquier, who died in 1242, though her...
(Collection of Gold Leaves) compiled by Minamoto no Shunrai (源 俊頼) 1140s–1150s Goliardic poetry by Hugh Primas of Orléans c. 1151–54 Waka anthology Shika Wakashū...
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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...
I (Komnenos) orders the arrest of all Venetians in his empire, and seizes their ships and goods. In September, Doge Vitale II Michiel leads a Venetian...
written in French in 1156, based on the myth of Aeneas as recounted by Virgil in the Aeneid Roman de Troie, a French poem written in the 1150s by Benoît...
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...
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...
cohesion. The Andalusian traveler Abū Hamid al-Gharnāti who visited Bulghar in the 1150s, noted that Iskandar Dhūl-Qarnayn passed through Bulghar, that is, the...
display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. February 2 – The Anarchy in the Kingdom of England – Battle of Lincoln: Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester...
Lorraine, and Luxembourg, then situated in the north-western territories of the Holy Roman Empire around the 1140s and 1150s. Alongside the Baltic Germans from...
the Alexiad in the mid-1140s or 1150s. Anna cited her husband's unfinished work as the reason why she began the Alexiad. Before his death in 1137, her husband...
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...
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...
the Yangtze River, between the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in China, result in two pivotal Song naval victories. December 15 – Wanyan Liang, Chinese...
Zhao Mingcheng. They had numerous similarities and both loved poetry, literature, sculpture in bronze and stone, painting, and calligraphy. After her husband...
to retreat to Salerno. Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire. June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000...
market in Paris. May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded in Wales by Cistercian monks in the Wye Valley. Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in Jiangsu...
Kara Arslan – who has made an alliance with Joscelin II, count of Edessa. In support of the alliance Joscelin marches out of Edessa with a Crusader army...
strife between him and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in order that he may dally in western Herefordshire with his mistress, Rosamund Clifford,...
Charles Yim-tze (1999). Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 89. ISBN 9780804732314...
led before a hostile crowd and publicly blinded. Nur al-Din puts him in prison in the Citadel of Aleppo. Battle of Aintab: A Crusader army led by King...
treaty. Autumn – William IV, count of Nevers, arrives in Palestine with a contingent of elite knights. In Jerusalem he is present during a council with Amalric...
succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope. The Heiji Rebellion breaks out in Japan. Tunis is reconquered from the Normans, by the Almohad caliphs. (Approximate...
Second Crusade at Vézelay, in Burgundy. King Louis VII of France and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, take up the cross. In a repeat of the events of...
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