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Year 1150 (MCL) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[link]

By place[link]

Europe[link]

• Eric Jedvardsson proclaims himself king of Västergötland, aiming at taking over as king of Sweden from Sverker the Elder.
• The city of Airdrie, Scotland is founded.
• Cubbie Roo's Castle is built on Wyre, Orkney.
• A Benedictine priory is founded at Birkenhead, England, resulting in the first recorded Mersey Ferry.
• Christchurch Priory is founded in Dorset, England.
• Castle Rising is built in Norfolk, England by William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
• The University of Paris, now known as the Sorbonne, is founded.
• The Tuam is promoted to a Metropolitan Archdiocese in Ireland.
• The Bishopric of Aberdeen is established.
• Christian Malone writes his Irish Chronology (Chronicum Scotorum).
• The city of Neuruppin is founded in Brandenburg, Germany.
• The city of Rinteln is founded in Lower Saxony, Germany.
• Albrecht the Bear inhabits Brandenburg.
• Middle Dutch begins to be spoken in what is now Benelux.
• Peter the Lombard publishes Sentences.
• Garcia IV Ramirez ends his reign as King of Navarre.

Middle East[link]

• Joscelin II of Edessa is taken prisoner during the Second Crusade.
• The city of Ashkelon is fortified with 53 towers by Fatimid rulers.
• The earliest textual reference is made to Gypsies working as musicians in Constantinople.

Asia[link]

• The temple at Angkor Wat is completed in Khmer (present-day Cambodia).

Births[link]

• Leo II of Armenia (d. 1229)
• William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber (approximate date; d. 1211)
• Rosamund Clifford, mistress of Henry II of England (approximate date; d. 1176)
• Alix of France, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1198)
• Saxo Grammaticus, Danish historian (d. 1220)
• Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (d. 1195)
• Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (approximate date; d. 1228)

Deaths[link]

• Emperor Xizong of Jin, third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty
• Suryavarman II, Khmer king, builder of Angkor Wat
• Barisan of Ibelin, figure in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Pribislav of Brandenburg, last king of the Hevelli (b. c. 1075)

References[link]