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

Events

= By place =

== Byzantine Empire ==

  • Battle of Tara: The Byzantines defeat the Serbian-Hungarian army under Grdeša, count (župan) of Travunija, near the snow-covered Tara River. The Serbs are overpowered, and Grand Prince Uroš II is forced to accept the peace agreement made by Emperor Manuel I (Komnenos). Uroš is succeeded by his brother Desa, who becomes co-ruler of the Principality of Serbia (until 1153).Joannes Cinnamus (1976). Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, p. 87. Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-231-52155-0}}.

== Levant ==

  • Spring – Joscelin II, count of Edessa, on his way to Antioch is separated from his escort and falls into the hands of some Turcoman free-booters. Nur al-Din, ruler (atabeg) of Aleppo, heard of Joscelin's capture and sends a squadron of cavalry to take him from his captors. Joscelin is led before a hostile crowd and publicly blinded. Nur al-Din puts him in prison in the Citadel of Aleppo.Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 267. {{ISBN|978-0-241-29876-3}}.
  • Battle of Aintab: A Crusader army led by King Baldwin III repels the attacks of Nur al-Din near Aintab. Baldwin safely evacuates the Christian residents of the County of Edessa, which is captured by the Zangids.Smail, R. C. (1956). Crusading Warfare 1097–1193, p. 160. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. {{ISBN|1-56619-769-4}}.
  • The city of Ascalon is fortified with 53 towers by order of the 17-year-old Caliph Al-Zafir, as it is the most strategic frontier fortress of the Fatimid Caliphate.Gore, Rick (January 2001). "Ancient Ashkelon". National Geographic.

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== Britain ==

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== Religion ==

  • The 15-year-old King Inge I (the Hunchback) of Norway calls for a meeting at Bergen of all religious leaders in anticipation that the English cardinal Nicholas Breakspear will find an archbishopric at Trondheim.
  • Peter Lombard, a French scholastic theologian, publishes the Four Books of Sentences, which becomes the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities.{{cite book|title=Scholasticism|url=https://archive.org/details/Scholasticism|author=Joseph Rickaby|year=1908|publisher=A. Constable|page=23}}
  • The temple at Angkor Wat ("Capital of Temples") is completed in the Khmer Empire (modern Cambodia).

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