1154

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1154 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1154 MCLIV
Ab urbe condita	1907
Armenian calendar	603 ԹՎ ՈԳ
Assyrian calendar	5904
Balinese saka calendar	1075–1076
Bengali calendar	560–561
Berber calendar	2104
English Regnal year	19 Ste. 1 – 1 Hen. 2
Buddhist calendar	1698
Burmese calendar	516
Byzantine calendar	6662–6663
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3851 or 3644 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3852 or 3645
Coptic calendar	870–871
Discordian calendar	2320
Ethiopian calendar	1146–1147
Hebrew calendar	4914–4915
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1210–1211
- Shaka Samvat	1075–1076
- Kali Yuga	4254–4255
Holocene calendar	11154
Igbo calendar	154–155
Iranian calendar	532–533
Islamic calendar	548–549
Japanese calendar	Ninpei 4 / Kyūju 1 (久寿元年)
Javanese calendar	1060–1061
Julian calendar	1154 MCLIV
Korean calendar	3487
Minguo calendar	758 before ROC 民前758年
Nanakshahi calendar	−314
Seleucid era	1465/1466 AG
Thai solar calendar	1696–1697
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1280 or 899 or 127 — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 1281 or 900 or 128

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April 18 – Nur al-Din, Seljuk ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo, encamps before Damascus and overthrows Mujir al-Din by force with support of the Jewish citizens, who open the eastern gate to the bulk of his army. Mujir flees to the citadel, but capitulates after only a few hours. He is offered his life and the Emirate of Homs. A few weeks later Mujir is suspected of plotting with old friends in Damascus and is exiled to Baghdad. Damascus is annexed to Zangid territory and all of Syria is unified under the authority of Nur al-Din, from Edessa in the north to the Hauran to the south.^[1]
Nur al-Din establishes the Al-Nuri Hospital in Damascus. The hospital has outpatient consulting rooms, a conference room, prayer hall, vestibules and bathrooms.^[2]

February 26 – King Roger II dies at Palermo after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his fourth son William I ("the Bad"') as ruler of Sicily. William appoints Maio of Bari, a man of low birth, to chancellor and his adviser. He pursues his father's policy of strengthening authority over the towns and the Italian nobles, who rally around his cousin Robert III, count of Loritello, in Apulia and Calabria.
Autumn – King Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, leads an expedition into Italy for his imperial coronation. He wants to impose his will upon the towns and cities of Lombardy, a region long accustomed to interference from Germany. Frederick encounters stiff resistance to his authority, the Lombard nobles are unwilling to acknowledge his rule and the rights to raise taxes.^[3]
The Almohad army conquers the last independent Muslim stronghold at Granada (modern Spain), after a six year siege.^[4]
The Banate of Bosnia becomes an autonomous duchy as part of the Lands of the Hungarian Crown.
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is first marked on the world map by Muhammad al-Idrisi.

October 25 – King Stephen dies after a short illness at Dover. He is succeeded by Henry of Anjou, the son of Queen Matilda.
December 19 – The 21-year-old Henry II is crowned as sole ruler of England along with his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.^[5]
Peter de Bermingham has a charter to hold a market in Birmingham, origin of the Bull Ring.

Normans conduct a series of raids in North Africa, including Annaba (modern Algeria)^[4] and the Nile Delta.^[6]

January 15 – Muhammad al-Idrisi, Arab geographer and cartographer, completes his atlas of the world, the Tabula Rogeriana, which will remain one of the most accurate maps until the Age of Discovery.^[7]

December 3 – Pope Anastasius IV dies after a 17-month pontificate. He is succeeded by Adrian IV (the only English pope in history) as the 169th pope of the Catholic Church.