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1156
Otto the Rich becomes Margrave of Meissen .
1156 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	604/605 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1148/49
Buddhist calendar	1699/1700 (southern Buddhism); 1698/99 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	64th (65th) cycle Year of the Fire Rat丙子 ( at the beginning of the year wood pig 乙亥)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	518/519 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	534/535
Islamic calendar	550/551 (February 24/25)
Jewish calendar	4916/17 (September 16/17)
Coptic calendar	872/873
Malayalam calendar	331/332
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1466/67 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1467/68 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1194
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1212/13 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

Holy Roman Empire / Italy

• February: Vitale Michiel II. Is the last Doge of Venice to be elected by the popular assembly. The election takes place one year after the death of his predecessor Domenico Morosini .

Marriage of Frederick I with Beatrix of Burgundy, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , 1751

• June 17th : Friedrich I. Barbarossa marries Beatrix of Burgundy in Würzburg for the second time .
• June 18 : Pope Hadrian IV and William I of Sicily sign the Treaty of Benevento , in which the Pope finally recognizes the Norman Empire in southern Italy . As a result, a conflict arises in the bond between Pope and Emperor, who wants to fight the Norman conquest of southern Italy .
• June 21 : Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa reassigns Augsburg the city charter that the place received as the Roman Augusta Vindelicorum from the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 121 AD. The Justitia Civitatis Augustensis is the oldest German city law.
• June: William I of Sicily conquers the rebellious Bari and razes the city to the ground. He makes his four-year-old son Roger Duke of Apulia .
• September 8th : Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa settles the long-standing dispute over the Duchy of Bavaria at the Regensburg Court Conference . The Welf Heinrich the Lion received Bavaria, the Babenberg Heinrich II Jasomirgott the later split off from Austria. Nine days later, the Privilegium Minus certificate is drawn up.

• Otto the Rich becomes Margrave of Meissen .

Eastern Europe and the Caucasus

• Giorgi III. becomes King of Georgia .
• The construction of the Moscow fortress on the edge of his territory, ordered by Prince Yuri Dolgoruki , has been completed.

Asia

• Hōgen rebellion in Japan
• Foundation of the Indian city of Jaisalmer

First documentary mentions

• First documentary mention of the later imperial city Schwäbisch Hall as well as Cottbus , Staden , Calfreisen , Flerden , Maladers , Masein , Samedan and Urmein

economy

In Venice is Montevecchio , founded an association of creditors , as the first banking institution of the West makes history.

religion

• May 14 : Arnold II von Wied , Archbishop of Cologne , dies in Xanten. Then there is a controversial election of bishops in Cologne. While the prior college elects the Bonn provost Gerhard von Are , the younger canons elect Friedrich II von Berg as archbishop. Finally, the two parties quarrel three days before Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa in Nuremberg, who then postpones his decision to a new day in Regensburg. Here he confirms Frederick II as the new Archbishop of Cologne, immediately gives him the regalia and sends him immediately to Rome for episcopal ordination.

Born

Date of birth saved

• October 27 : Raymond VI. , Count of Toulouse († 1222 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Gottfried II. , Count of Ziegenhain († around 1200 )
• Hōjō Masako , mother of the Japanese shoguns Minamoto no Yoriie and Minamoto no Sanetomo († 1225 )
• Magnus V , King of Norway († 1184 )

Born around 1156

• Mathilde Plantagenet , Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria († 1189 )
• Al-Āmidī , Islamic scholar († 1233 )
• Bona of Pisa , Catholic Augustinian terniar and mystic († 1207 )

Died

Date of death secured

• January 17th : André de Montbard , Grand Master of the Templar Order (* around 1103 )
• January 31 : Hermann von Horn , Bishop of Utrecht
• March 9 : Alexander von Plock, Bishop of Plock

• May 7th : Ratibor I. , Duke of Pomerania-Schlawe-Stolp
• May 14 : Arnold II von Wied , Archbishop of Cologne (* around 1098 )
• May 19 : Heinrich I , Bishop of Minden

• July 20 : Toba , Tennō of Japan (* 1103 )
• July 30th : Ala ad-Din Atsiz , Khorezm Shah from the Anushteginid dynasty

• August 4th : Otto V. , Count of Scheyern (* 1083 )
• August 11 : Fujiwara no Yorinaga , Japanese minister (* 1120 )
• August 12th : Blanka of Navarre , Queen of Castile
• September 20 : Hermann von Stahleck , Count Palatine near Rhine

• November 22nd : Heinrich I. von Tecklenburg , Count of Tecklenburg (* around 1115 )
• December 25 : Peter the Venerable , Abbot of Cluny, theologian and monastic reformer (* 1092 / 1094 )

Exact date of death unknown

• February: Domenico Morosini , 37th Doge of Venice
• June: Wilhelm von Poitiers , English prince, eldest son of Henry II of England (* 1153 )

• Gilbert de Gant, 1st Earl of Lincoln , English nobleman (* around 1120 )
• Mas'ud I , Seljuk Sultan of Rum
• Minamoto no Tameyoshi , Japanese samurai (* 1096 )
• Mohammed I , Seljuk ruler of Kerman
• Niphont , Bishop of Novgorod
• Poppo I. , Count of Reichenbach

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