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1150 - Definition and Overview |
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Events
- Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges
- City of Airdrie, Scotland founded
- King Sverker I of Sweden is deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden.
- Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg
- Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences
- University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, founded
- During Crusades, city of Ashkelon fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers
- Earl of Bedford created
- Cubbie Roo's Castle built on Wyre, Orkney
- Mersey Ferry begins running between Liverpool and Birkenhead
- Neuruppin city founded in Brandenburg, Germany
- Rinteln city founed in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux
- Joscelin II of Edessa taken prisoner during Second Crusade
- Earliest textual reference made to Gypsies working as musicians (in Constantinople)
- Castle Rising built in Norfolk, England by William d'Albini, Earl of Arundel
- Garcia IV Ramirez ends reign as King of Navarre
- Bishopric of Aberdeen established
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