This page relates to the year 1155 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Middle East

• Beginning of the reign of Qılıj Arslan II, sultan saljûqide of Rum (fine in 1190).
• Taken Baalbek by Nur AD-DIN.

Europe

France

• Return of Louis VII of France of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle. Stay with Montpellier.
• June 10th: Council of Soissons: Louis VII founds the Paix of God on the kingdom. First royal decrees in France to found peace in the kingdom.
• Habits of Lorris.

British Isles

• Thomas Becket is named Chancelier kingdom of England.

Italy

• June 18th: Frederic Barberousse is crowned emperor with Pavia.

• Demolished commune of Rome vis-a-vis the pope and to the emperor. Arnaud de Brescia is overcome and burned by Frederic Ier Barberousse.
• the Pouilles in Italy of the South are occupied by the Byzantine .
• the Byzantines unload with Ancône and assert Marches on the gulf of Tarente (1155 - 1156). They alienate at the same time Venice which cannot tolerate a threat on its connections in Adriatique, the emperor Frederic Barberousse and the king Guillaume Ier of Sicily.

Worsen Byzantine

• Victoire of Géza II of Hungary on the emperor of the East Manual Ier Comnène.
• Genoa obtains commercial privileges with Constantinople.

Russia

• Klim is definitively driven out of Kiev by Iouri Dolgorouki, which requires of the patriarch Constantinople new a métropolite. The bishop Constantin Ier is appointed.
• Novgorod obtains ecclesiastical autonomy thanks to the fidelity of its bishop, Niphon, with the patriarchate of Constantinople at the time of the schism of Kiev.

Art & culture

• Foundation of the Abbey of Valmagne (Herault).

• Romance of Crude of Wace, dedicated to Aliénor of Aquitaine and telling the adventures of the King Arthur.
• First chart printed in China.

Economy

• Appearance of the contract of exchange of place in place in Europe.

Births in 1155

• Isaac II, Byzantine Emperor.

Death in 1155

• Gratien, monk camaldule bolonais (born v. 1095), founder of the canonical right.

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