1154

This page relates to the year 1154 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Pisa obtains a commercial treaty of the caliph Fatimide Az-Zafir: it ensures to him the pleasure of a fondaco (warehouse) with Alexandria and the Cairo, freedom to sell in all the country after payment of the taxes and removes the old system of the collective responsibility which allowed the capacity to prevail against the compatriots from any faulty abroad.
Assassination of the caliph Fatimide of Egypt Az-Zafir. Al-Faiz succeeds to him. The general fatimide Talaï Ibn Rouzzik seizes the power, but will be assassinated in 1060.

the Moslem chief Nur AD-DIN, atabek of Alep, takes Damas with the Turks Seldjoukides.

April 18th: Nur AD-DIN returns with its troops in front of Damas. Abaq sends an urgent message to Baudouin III, which will not have time to intervene.
April 25th: the final attack is given to the east of the city, which falls without bloodshed. The middle-class men of Damas accommodate Nur AD-DIN like a saver and drive out the dynasty of the Burides. Abaq is its close relations obtain strongholds in the area of Homs. Nur AD-DIN completes thus the reunification of the Moslem Syria, except for the emirate of Chayzar, where the dynasty of the Mounqidhites guard still its autonomy.

After death in front of Ascalon of Bernard de Tramelay (August 22nd 1153), Andre de Montbard (10?? - 1156) - the last of the new first knights founders of the Order - is elected like Large-maïtre of the Ordre of the Temple. It accepted this nomination to counter the foreseeable election of another knight of the Temple, Guillaume II of Chanaleilles, favorite of the King de France Louis VII, which would have made it possible to the king to control the Order.

February 20th: Beginning of the reign of Guillaume '' the Bad '', king of Sicily (fine in 1166).
In spring, the king Louis VII wife with Orleans Constancy of Castille, girl of Alphonse VII (dead in 1160).
Pilgrimage of king de France Louis VII with Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle.
July 16th: Great schism of the East. Excommunication of the patriarch of Constantinople Michel Cérulaire.
July 24th: The Byzantine permanent synod retorts by anathémisant the papal legates.
December 19th: Beginning of the reign of Henri II of England, Henri of Anjou first king Plantagenêt (fine in 1189). He is the father of the future kings of England Richard Lion-hearted and Jean without Ground.

Henri II, whose field extends from the Pyrenees in Scotland, is the most powerful king of Europe. He will pass twenty and one years of his reign in his French possessions.

December 14th: Nicholas Breakspear is elected Pape under the name of Adrien IV. He is the single English pope (fine in 1159).

the Trouvère Benoît of Holy-Moor composes the Novel of Troy .
Chronic of Peterborough, last version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronic which is prolonged beyond 1079, finishing on an unfinished passage concerning of the events of 1154.

Description of the world , geography of the Arab Al-Idrissi (born in 1100), synthesis enters the data of Greek science and the notions of the Arab travellers, realized for the king Roger II of Sicily.
Construction of a second hospital (maristan) with Damas. It will function until in 1899, date on which it will be transformed into school.

February 20th: Roger II, king of Sicily.
October 25th: Etienne of Blois, king d' Angleterre (born in 1135).
Geoffroy de Monmouth, author of a Life of Merlin at the origin of the cycles arthuriens.

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