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File:Kingdom of Sicily 1154.svg (1154)]]

File:Guglielmo I.jpg (the Bad) (r. 1154–1166)]]

Year 1154 (MCLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= By place =

== Levant ==

  • 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.Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 278. {{ISBN|978-0-241-29876-3}}.
  • Nur al-Din establishes the Al-Nuri Hospital in Damascus. The hospital has outpatient consulting rooms, a conference room, prayer hall, vestibules and bathrooms.{{cite web|title=Al-Nuri hospital, in Damascus 1154|url=http://www.shininghistory.com/2009/06/al-nuri-hospitaldamascus-in-1154.html|access-date=8 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107040400/http://www.shininghistory.com/2009/06/al-nuri-hospitaldamascus-in-1154.html|archive-date=November 7, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

== Europe ==

  • 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 I (Barbarossa) 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.Andrew Roberts (2008). Great Commanders of the Medieval World (454–1582), p. 130. {{ISBN|978-0-85738-589-5}}.
  • The Almohad army conquers the last independent Muslim stronghold at Granada (modern Spain), after a six year siege.Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cæur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658–1518). Paris: La Dïcouverte; p. 88.
  • 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.

== Africa ==

  • Normans conduct a series of raids in North Africa, including Annaba (modern Algeria)Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658–1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 71. and the Nile Delta.{{cite book|last=Abels|first=Richard Philip|title=The Normans and their adversaries at war|year=2001|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|location=Woodbridge|isbn=0-85115-847-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jOic9EEo3PIC&q=The+occasion+of+the+coming+of+the+Normans+to+southern+Italy|author2=Bernard S. Bachrach|page=100}}

== England ==

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== Art and Culture ==

  • 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.{{cite book|last=Matthew|first=Donald|title=The Norman kingdom of Sicily|year=1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0-521-26911-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CQfub3l_ejkC&q=january&pg=PA277|page=228}}

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