1153

This page relates to the year 1153 Calendrier Julien.

Events

In China, the Jin transfer their capital to Beijing (Beijing).
Beginning of the reign of the king Parâkkamabâhu Ier with Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (fine in 1186). It succeeds in unifying the island which knows its golden age.
fatal Epidemic (measles?) with Heian, the Japan (1153 - 1154).

the Turks Oghuz crush the armies Saljûqides of Sanjar and invade the Khorasan. Sanjar is made prisoner.

Najm AD-DIN Ayyub manages to make sure of the benevolent neutrality of the urban militia of Damas. Several persons in charge of the army adopt the same attitude. Nur AD-DIN forwards to Abaq of Damas of false information giving a report on a plot that its entourage would warp, the small group of emirs which still encourages it to hold head. Abaq makes carry out and imprison several of his/her collaborators, and is only found.
Nur AD-DIN suddenly intercepts all the convoys of vivres which move towards Damas. The price of corn passes in two days of one half-dinar to twenty-five dinars, and the population starts to fear the famine.
Renaud de Châtillon allures the widow of Raymond d' Antioche then the wife, becoming thus the lord of the city. Very quickly its exactions will make it odious to its Alépins neighbors, but also in Roums and its own subjects.
Forwarding of piracy against Cyprus of Renaud de Châtillon.

the Aragon board occupy all northern bank of the Èbre.
Alphonse Ier of Portugal installs the monks cistercians at the southernmost end of his kingdom, with the confluence of the Alcoa and the Baça, where the monastery of Alcobaça is founded.

the pope Eugene III calls the bishop of Arras to vigilance vis-a-vis the heretics.
La Rochelle obtains the statute of parish.

July 12th: Beginning of the Pontificate of Anastase IV (fine in 1154).
the cardinal Rolando Bandinelli becomes chancellor of the pope. He is sent as legate to negotiate the treaty of Constancy with the emperor Frederic I° Barberousse.

January 6th: Henri II Plantagenêt unloads in England.
May 24th: Beginning of the reign of Malcom V the Modeste, king of Scotland (fine in 1165).
November 6th: the Traité of Wallingford puts an end to the civil war in England between Mathilde Emperesse and Etienne of Blois. With died of his son, Etienne of Blois indicates Henri II Plantagenêt, wire of Mathilde and heir to Anjou, of Maine, of Touraine and Poitou like successor.

the papal legate Nicolas Breakspear goes to the synod Linköping: the discipline of the Western clergy is imposed in Norway.

Nicolas Breakspear, papal legate, become cardinal of Albano, supports the candidate with the throne of Norway Inge, the only legitimate child among the candidates then in string. Inge is killed while fighting against the inhabitants of the area of Trondheim (February 4th 1161), who support an applicant who will be assassinated itself one year later. Five kings de Norvège perish assassinated 1155 with 1163.

Iaroslav “Osmomysl” Vladimirovitch of Galitch reign on the Galicie (fine in 1187). He is the only prince of the south-west which manages to subdue the boyards.
the principality of Galicie has rich person mines of salt and is in the center of a big business with cities like Halicz, Przemysl, Łwow.

August 16th: Bernard de Tramelay 4^e Large Master of the Templiers
August 20th: died of Bernard de Clairvaux (Holy Bernard), the congregation cistercian counts 345 Monastère S.
Shahrastanin thinker and Moslem theologist. It classifies the philosophers in sects external with Islam.

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