Explore 47 historical events from 1140–1149.
Minamoto no Yoritomo was a samurai, daimyo and the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first shogun in the history of Jap…
Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shōgun (died 1199)
Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic, philosopher, leading logician, theologian, teacher, musician, composer, and poet.
Peter Abelard, French philosopher and theologian (born 1079)
Xin Qiji was a Chinese poet, calligrapher, and military general during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279).
Xin Qiji, Chinese poet, general, and politician (died 1207)
Ermengarde of Anjou, also known as Ermengarde of Brittany, was a member of the comital House of Anjou and by her two marriages was successively Duchess of Aquitaine and Brittany. S…
Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess regent of Brittany (born 1068)
Petronilla of Chemillé was the first abbess of the double monastery of Fontevrault in western France, which she headed from 1115 to 1149 following her second widowhood. She is hono…
Petronille de Chemillé, abbess of Fontevrault
Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari was a medieval Muslim scholar of Iranian descent. He travelled to Mecca and settled there for five years and has been known since then a…
Al-Zamakhshari, Persian theologian (born 1075)
Peter Abelard was a medieval French scholastic, philosopher, leading logician, theologian, teacher, musician, composer, and poet.
The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy
Richenza of Northeim was Duchess of Saxony from 1106, Queen of Germany from 1125 and Holy Roman Empress from 1133 as the wife of Lothair of Supplinburg.
Richenza of Northeim (born 1087)
Raymond of Poitiers was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149. He was the younger son of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, born in the very …
Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi
The Crusades were a series of military campaigns launched by the papacy between 1095 and 1291 against Muslim rulers for the recovery and defence of the Holy Land, as part of a wide…
Crusades: The siege of Damascus ended in a decisive victory for the Muslims, leading to the disintegration of the…
Raymond of Poitiers was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149. He was the younger son of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, born in the very …
Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi
Petronilla of Chemillé was the first abbess of the double monastery of Fontevrault in western France, which she headed from 1115 to 1149 following her second widowhood. She is hono…
Petronille de Chemillé, abbess of Fontevrault
Raymond of Poitiers was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149. He was the younger son of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and his wife Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, born in the very …
Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (born 1115)
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church is simu…
The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
Mu'in ad-Din Unur was the ruler of Damascus from 1140 to 1149. He was a Turkoman slave of Burid emirs.
Mu'in ad-Din Unur, Turkish ruler and regent
Abūʾl-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir, better known by his regnal name as al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh, was the eleventh Fatimid caliph, ruling over Egypt from 1132 to …
Al-Hafiz, Fatimid imam-caliph (born 1074/77)
Louis VII, was King of France from 1137 to 1180. His first marriage was to Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe. The marria…
Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
The siege of Damascus took place between 24 and 28 July 1148, during the Second Crusade. It ended in a crusader defeat and led to the disintegration of the crusade. The two main Ch…
The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
William II, Count of Nevers, was a crusader in the Crusade of 1101.
William II, Count of Nevers (born c. 1089)
Conan III, also known as Conan of Cornouaille and Conan the Fat was duke of Brittany, from 1112 to his death. He was the son of Alan IV, Duke of Brittany and Ermengarde of Anjou.
Conan III, duke of Brittany (born 1070)
The Crusades were a series of military campaigns launched by the papacy between 1095 and 1291 against Muslim rulers for the recovery and defence of the Holy Land, as part of a wide…
Crusades: The siege of Damascus ended in a decisive victory for the Muslims, leading to the disintegration of the…
The second Battle of Dorylaeum took place near Dorylaeum in October 1147 during the Second Crusade. The battle consisted of a series of encounters over several days. The German Cru…
Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
The siege of Lisbon, from 1 July to 25 October 1147, was the military action against the Almoravid dynasty that brought the city of Lisbon under the definitive control of the new C…
Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon.
Minamoto no Yoritomo was a samurai, daimyo and the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate, ruling from 1192 until 1199, also the first shogun in the history of Jap…
Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shōgun (died 1199)
Igor II Olgovich was Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev (1146). He was a son of Oleg I of Chernigov.
Igor II of Kiev
The Reconquista or the fall of al-Andalus was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had been part of the Visi…
Reconquista: Forces under Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege in one of the…
Ermengarde of Anjou, also known as Ermengarde of Brittany, was a member of the comital House of Anjou and by her two marriages was successively Duchess of Aquitaine and Brittany. S…
Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess regent of Brittany (born 1068)
The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian empire established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. The empire spanned a t…
Seljuk atabeg Imad al-Din Zengi of Mosul is assassinated by a slave and succeeded by his quarrelling sons.
Vsevolod II Olgovich was Prince of Chernigov (1127–1139) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1139–1146). He was a son of Oleg Svyatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov.
Vsevolod II of Kiev, Russian prince
Eric III Lamb was King of Denmark from 1137 until 1146. He was the grandson of Eric I and the nephew of Eric II, whom he succeeded on the throne. He abdicated in 1146, becoming the…
King Eric III of Denmark
Al-Malik al-Mansur Abu al-Mudhaffar Imad al-Din Zengi bin Aq Sunqur al-Hajib bin Abdullah, also romanized as Zangi, Zengui, Zenki, and Zanki, was a Turkoman atabeg of the Seljuk Em…
Imad ad-Din Zengi, Syrian ruler (born 1087)
Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond, Breton Alan Penteur, also known as "Alan the Black", was a Breton noble who fought for Stephen, King of England. Alan was the third son of Stephen, Coun…
Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond, English soldier (born 1100)
Baldwin was a Cistercian monk and later Archbishop of Pisa, a correspondent of Bernard of Clairvaux, and a reformer of the Republic of Pisa. Throughout his episcopate, he greatly …
Baldwin, archbishop of Pisa
Lund Cathedral is a cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in Lund, Scania, Sweden. It is the seat of the Bishop of Lund and the main church of the Diocese of Lund. It was buil…
The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time the seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is…