1152

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1149 1150 1151 – 1152 – 1153 1154 1155

1152 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1152 in poetry

1152 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1152 MCLII
Ab urbe condita	1905
Armenian calendar	601 ԹՎ ՈԱ
Assyrian calendar	5902
Bengali calendar	559
Berber calendar	2102
English Regnal year	17 Ste. 1 – 18 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1696
Burmese calendar	514
Byzantine calendar	6660–6661
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 3848 or 3788     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3849 or 3789
Coptic calendar	868–869
Discordian calendar	2318
Ethiopian calendar	1144–1145
Hebrew calendar	4912–4913
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1208–1209
- Shaka Samvat	1074–1075
- Kali Yuga	4253–4254
Holocene calendar	11152
Igbo calendar	152–153
Iranian calendar	530–531
Islamic calendar	546–547
Japanese calendar	Ninpei 2 (仁平２年)
Julian calendar	1152 MCLII
Korean calendar	3485
Minguo calendar	760 before ROC 民前760年
Seleucid era	1463/1464 AG
Thai solar calendar	1694–1695

Year 1152 (MCLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Almohad Dynasty conquers the Maghrib al-Awsat, nowadays Algeria. Béjaïa becomes one of the main naval bases of the dynasty.^[1]
• The Normans control most of the coast of Ifriqiya, nowadays Tunisia.

Asia

• Aladdin of Ghur sacks Ghazni and destroys the Ghaznavid Empire.
• March 31 – King Baldwin III of Jerusalem exiles his mother Melisende, with whom he has been jointly reigning, to Nablus.

Europe

• March 4 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
• May 18 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou after getting her previous marriage to Louis VII annulled. Henry had claimed the County of Anjou, the County of Maine, and the province of Touraine upon the death of his father Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, the previous year. With the addition of Eleanor's lands, he now controls territory stretching unbroken from Cherbourg to Bayonne.^[2]
• The Church of Ireland acknowledges the Pope's authority.
• The archbishopric of Nidaros (Trondheim), Norway is established.
• The town of Gorodets (modern Russia) is founded by Prince Yuri Dolgorukiy.
• The Synod of Kells-Mellifont established the present diocesan system of Ireland (with later modifications) and recognized the primacy of Armagh.

Births

• Geoffrey, illegitimate son of Henry II of England (approximate date; d. 1212)
• Taira no Tomomori, Japanese soldier (d. 1185)
• Han Tuozhou, Song Dynasty Chinese statesman (d. 1207)
• Roman the Great, "autocrat of the entire Rus", founder and prince of Halych-Wolyn Rus (future Kingdom of Ruthenia Minor), founder of Romanovichi genus of Rurikovichi dynasty

Deaths

• February 15 – Conrad III of Germany (b. 1093)
• May 3 – Matilda of Boulogne, sovereign Countess of Boulogne and queen of Stephen of England (b. 1105)
• June 12 – Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1114)
• October 12 – Adolf III of Berg (b. 1080)
• date unknown – Raymond II, Count of Tripoli (b. c. 1115)

References

1. Picard, Christophe (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident VIIIe-XIIIe siècle. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
2. King John by Warren. Published by the University of California Press in 1961. p. 21