Crusades Timeline: 1145-1163
Note: where only the year is known, the event is listed last in the events for that year.
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1145-1163 •
1164-1187 •
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1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
1215-1220 • 1221-1229 • 1230-1248 • 1249-1257 • 1258-1269 • 1270-1291 •
| Events in Outremer | Events in Europe | ||
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| 1145 | Feb 15 | Death of Pope Lucius II; Bernard of Pisa elected Eugenius III | |
| Robert of Chester, first Latin translation of al-Khwarizmi's Algebra | |||
| Great Mosque of Mosul begun | |||
| 1146 | Mar 1 | Pope Eugenius III proclaims Second Crusade | |
| Sep 14 | Zangi of Mosul murdered; Safadin succeeds in Mosul, Nuredin in Aleppo | ||
| Roger of Sicily captures Tripoli in North Africa | |||
| Bishop Otto of Freising writes History of Two Cities | |||
| 1147 | May | German crusader army leaves from Regensburg | |
| Jun 26 | French crusade leaves from Saint Denis | ||
| Jun 26 | The Wends sack Lübeck | ||
| Jun 29 | Saxon nobles plan Wendish Crusade | ||
| Jul 31 | Wends defeat the Danes | ||
| Sep | Saxons abandon their crusade | ||
| Oct 25 | German crusade destroyed by Turks near Dorylaeum; Lisbon falls to English/French crusaders | ||
| Nov | Conrad retreats and meets up with Louis | ||
| Nov 3 | Nuredin defeats Count Joscelin II of Edessa | ||
| Roger II brings silk weavers from Thebes and Corinth to Palermo | |||
| 1148 | Jan | Matilda leaves England | |
| Jan 1 | Louis enters Antioch | ||
| Apr 24 | Crusaders confer at Acre; decide to attack Damascus | ||
| Jul 24 | Crusaders attack Damascus, but retreat four days later | ||
| Sep 8 | Conrad leaves the Holy Land | ||
| Nov | Raymond of Antioch defeats Nuredin at Famiya | ||
| Raymond-Berengar takes Tortosa | |||
| Council of Reims condemns heresy in Gascony and Provence | |||
| Anna Comnena dies | |||
| 1149 | Jun 29 | Raymond of Antioch defeated | |
| Jul | Louis, returning from the crusade, lands in Calabria | ||
| Nov | Henry the Lion resumes his claim to Bavaria | ||
| 1150 | Apr | Nur-ad-Din captures and blinds Joscelin of Edessa | |
| Conrad creates Albert the Bear Elector of Brandenburg | |||
| Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences | |||
| 1151 | Jan 13 | Death of Abbot Suger, designer of the first Gothic cathedres (Chartres) | |
| Sep 7 | Death of Geoffrey Plantagenet of Anjou | ||
| 1152 | Feb 15 | King Conrad of Germany dies | |
| Mar 4 | Frederick I, Conrad's nephew, elected King of the Romans | ||
| Mar 21 | Marriage of Louis and Eleanor dissolved | ||
| May 16 | Henry Plantagenet marries Eleanor of Aquitaine | ||
| John of Salisbury publishes Historica Pontificalis | |||
| 1153 | Jan | Henry invades England | |
| Mar 23 | Frederick of Hohenstaufenand Pope Eugenius come to terms | ||
| May 24 | Death of King David I of Scotland | ||
| Jul 8 | Death of Pope Eugenius III; Anastasius IV elected four days later | ||
| Aug 19 | Ascalon surrenders to King Baldwin | ||
| Aug 20 | St. Bernard dies | ||
| Nov 7 | Henry recognizes Stephen as king, but Stephen designates Henry as his heir | ||
| Baptistry of Pisa Cathedral begun | |||
| Construction of Senlis Cathedral begun | |||
| 1154 | Feb 26 | Roger II of Sicily dies; succeeded by his son William I | |
| Apr 25 | Nur-ad-Din takes Damascus | ||
| Oct | Frederick's first invasion of Italy | ||
| Oct 25 | King Stephen of England dies | ||
| Dec 3 | Pope Anastasius dies; Adrian IV elected next day | ||
| Dec 19 | Henry crowned King of England | ||
| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles end (begun in 880) | |||
| 1155 | Jan | Henry II of England appoints Thomas Becket his chancellor | |
| Mar | Pope Adrian places Rome under interdict, forcing the Romans to expel their leader, Arnold of Brescia | ||
| Apr 17 | Frederick crowned King of Lombardy at Pavia | ||
| Jun 18 | Frederick crowned Holy Roman Emperor; the Romans attack the Germans soon after, forcing them to withdraw from the city | ||
| Nov | Pope Adrian allies with Italian barons against William of Sicily; allies also with Emperor Manuel, who captures Bari | ||
| Pope Adrian grants Ireland to Henry II of England | |||
| Arnold of Brescia burnt as a heretic | |||
| Order of Carmelites founded | |||
| 1156 | spring | Reynald of Châtillon and Thoros of Armenia ravage Cyprus | |
| May 28 | William of Sicily defeats the Byzantines and recovers Bari | ||
| Jun | Adrian recognizes William as King of Sicily | ||
| Emperor Frederick marries Beatrice, heiress of Upper Burgundy | |||
| Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, dies | |||
| 1157 | Aug 21 | Death of Alfonso of Castile | |
| Sep 8 | Richard Plantagenet born | ||
| Oct | Emperor Frederick takes possession of the Kingdom of Burgundy | ||
| Oct 23 | Waldemar I defeats and kills rival claimant Svein III, thus becoming King of Denmark | ||
| Eric of Sweden conquers Finland | |||
| Council of Reims condemns the Cathars | |||
| Henry II grants protection to the Hanseatic League in London | |||
| Foundation of the Bank of Venice | |||
| Henry the Lion founds Munich | |||
| 1158 | Jan 11 | Diet of Regensburg, at which Frederick cedes the Kingdom of Bohemia to Vladislav II | |
| Arp | Baldwin defeats Dur-ad-Din at Butaila | ||
| Jul | Frederick begins second Italian expedition | ||
| Sep 8 | Milan surrenders to Frederick | ||
| Sep 22 | Bishop Otto of Freising dies | ||
| Oct | Emperor Manuel invades Cilicia. Thoros evades capture, but Reynald of Antioch submits and is pardoned | ||
| Nov 11 | Diet of Roncaglia | ||
| Emperor Manuel withdraws from Italy | |||
| Frederick I grants charter to Bologna University | |||
| 1159 | Apr 12 | Manuel enters Antioch, but soon leaves | |
| Jul | Frederick begins his siege of Crema, but Genoa and other cities rebel | ||
| Sep | Henry II begins siege of Toulouse | ||
| Sep 1 | Death of Pope Adrian IV; succeeded by Alexander III, but a pro-Frederick faction elects Victor IV; neither faction is able to control Rome | ||
| 1160 | Jan | Sicily loses Mahdiyah, the last of its North African holdings | |
| Jan 27 | Crema falls to Frederick; he destroys it | ||
| Feb 11 | At a synod at Pavia, Frederick declares Victor IV to be pope | ||
| Mar 24 | Alexander excommunicates Frederick I | ||
| Ma7 18 | St. Eric, King of Sweden, is killed in civil war | ||
| Jun | Henry the Lion begins conquest of the Wends | ||
| Nov | Nur-ad-Din captures Reynald of Antioch | ||
| Ptolemey's Almagest translated from Greek by Eugene of Palermo | |||
| 1161 | Feb 3 | Inge I of Norway murdered; succeeded by Haakon II | |
| Apr 16 | William of Sicily crushes the rebellion against him | ||
| May 31 | Géza II of Hungary dies; succeeded by his son Stephen III | ||
| Sep | Frederick begins siege of Milan | ||
| 1162 | Feb 10 | Baldwin III of Jerusalem dies; succeeded by his brother Amalric | |
| Mar 26 | Milan falls to Frederick and is sacked | ||
| Jun 3 | Thomas Becket consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury | ||
| Jul 6 | Wends defeated at Demmin | ||
| Aug 8 | Death of Raymond-Berengar II, Count of Barcelona and Count of Tripoli | ||
| Haakon II defeated and murdered by Jarl Erling; his son, Magnus III becomes King of Norway | |||
| Charles VII succeeds as King of Sweden | |||
| Poitiers Cathedral begun | |||
| Danegeld raised for the last time, by Henry II | |||
| 1163 | Oct 1 | Becket refuses Henry's demand for punishment of clergy in secular courts | |
| Representatives of towns attend the Cortes of Aragon | |||
| Nôtre Dame Cathedral, Paris, begun | |||