Year 1156 (MCLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 1156 MCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1909 |
| Armenian calendar | 605 ԹՎ ՈԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5906 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1077–1078 |
| Bengali calendar | 563 |
| Berber calendar | 2106 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Hen. 2 – 3 Hen. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1700 |
| Burmese calendar | 518 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6664–6665 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3853 or 3646 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 3854 or 3647 |
| Coptic calendar | 872–873 |
| Discordian calendar | 2322 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1148–1149 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4916–4917 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1212–1213 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1077–1078 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4256–4257 |
| Holocene calendar | 11156 |
| Igbo calendar | 156–157 |
| Iranian calendar | 534–535 |
| Islamic calendar | 550–551 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyūju 3 / Hōgen 1 (保元元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1062–1063 |
| Julian calendar | 1156 MCLVI |
| Korean calendar | 3489 |
| Minguo calendar | 756 before ROC 民前756年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −312 |
| Seleucid era | 1467/1468 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1698–1699 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1282 or 901 or 129 — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1283 or 902 or 130 |
Events
editBy place
editLevant
edit- Spring – Raynald of Châtillon, prince of Antioch, makes an alliance with Thoros II (the Great), ruler of Armenian Cilicia. He invades Cyprus and conducts a widespread plundering of the Byzantine island.[1] The Crusaders and the Armenian forces march up and down the island robbing and pillaging every building, church and convent as well as shops and private houses. The crops are burnt; the herds are rounded up – together with all the population – and driven down to the coast. 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 loaded with booty, and every Cypriot is forced to ransom himself.[2]
Europe
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- January 20 – Freeholder Lalli slays the English missionary-bishop Henry with an axe, on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland (according to legend).
- February – Domenico Morosini, doge of Venice (House of Morosini), dies after an 8-year reign. He is succeeded by Vitale II Michiel as ruler of Venice.
- May 28 – King William I (the Bad) lands with a Sicilian expeditionary force in Apulia. He defeats the Byzantine army at Brindisi and recaptures Bari.
- June 9 – Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) marries Beatrice I, daughter of Reginald III, adding the County of Burgundy to the Holy Roman Empire.
- June 18 – Pope Adrian IV comes to terms, and signs the Treaty of Benevento. He recognises the suzerainty of William I as ruler of Sicily and Italy.[3]
- September 17 – Frederick I makes the Margraviate of Austria a duchy and gives the Babenberg Dynasty special privileges (the Privilegium Minus).
- Yuri Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince of Kiev, founds and fortifies the town of Moscow and erects a wooden Kremlin within the settlement (approximate date).
- December 25 – King Sverker I (the Elder) is murdered on his way to church. He is succeeded by his rival, Eric IX (the Holy), as ruler of Sweden.
Africa
edit- The independent city-state Sfax revolts against Norman occupation. Almohad forces conquer the city and massacre the Christian citizens.[4]
Asia
edit- July 28 – The Hōgen rebellion, a dispute between Emperor Go-Shirakawa and his half-brother retired-Emperor Sutoku, erupts in Japan.
By topic
editArt and Science
edit- Mosan artists create the Stavelot Triptych, a masterpiece of Goldsmithing, as a reliquary to house purported pieces of the True Cross.
Births
edit- January 6 – Matilda of England, daughter of Henry II (d. 1189)
- October 27 – Raymond VI, French nobleman (d. 1222)
- Abu Said al-Baji, Almohad Sufi scholar (d. 1231)
- Gaucelm Faidit, French troubadour (d. 1209)
- Hōjō Masako, Japanese noblewoman (d. 1225)
- Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1204)
- Magnus V Erlingsson, king of Norway (d. 1184)
- Robert of Auxerre, French chronicler (d. 1212)
- Sayf al-Din al-Amidi, Ayyubid jurist (d. 1233)
- Zhang Congzheng, Chinese physician (d. 1228)
Deaths
edit- January 17 – André de Montbard, French nobleman
- January 20 – Henry, English bishop and missionary
- January 31 – Herman van Horne, bishop of Utrecht
- July 20 – Toba, Japanese emperor (b. 1103)
- August 4 – Otto IV, German nobleman (b. 1083)
- August 12 – Blanca of Navarre, queen of Castile
- November 20 – Henry I, German nobleman (b. 1115)
- December 2 – William IX, count of Poitiers (b. 1153)
- December 25
- Peter the Venerable, French monk and abbot
- Sverker I (the Elder), king of Sweden
- Atsiz, Persian ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire
- Domenico Morosini, doge of Venice (House of Morosini)
- Fujiwara no Sadanobu, Japanese calligrapher (b. 1088)
- Fujiwara no Taishi, Japanese empress (b. 1095)
- Fujiwara no Yorinaga, Japanese statesman (b. 1120)
- Gilbert de Gant, English nobleman (b. 1126)
- Li Qingzhao, Chinese female poet (b. 1084)
- Mas'ud I, Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum
- Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Japanese general (b. 1096)
- Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, Irish king (b. 1088)
References
edit- ^ Ghazarian, Jacob G. (2000). The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia during the Crusades: The Integration of Cilician Armenians with the Latins (1080–1393. Routledge Curzon (Taylor & Francis Group), 2000, Abingdon. ISBN 0-7007-1418-9.
- ^ Runciman, Steven (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 283. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ Kleinhenz, Christopher (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-415-93930-0.
- ^ Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" (PDF). Africa. 62 (2): 187–208. JSTOR 25734500. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved January 17, 2012.