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Calendar year
Year 1157 (
MCLVII ) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January 12 –
March 16 – Caliph
Al-Muqtafi successfully defends
Baghdad against the coalition forces of Sultan Muhammad of Hamadan, and Atabeg Qutb-adin of
Mosul .
[1]
Albert I of Brandenburg begins his ruthless program to pacify the
Slavic region .
[2]
June 11 –
Albert I of Brandenburg , also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes the founder of the
Margraviate of
Brandenburg ,
Germany and the first
Margrave .
[3]
August 12 – The
1157 Hama earthquake takes place after a year of foreshocks. Its name is taken from the city of
Hama , in west-central
Syria (then under
Seljuk rule), where the most casualties are sustained.
[4]
August 21 –
Sancho III and
Ferdinand II , the sons of King
Alfonso VII of Castile , divide his kingdom between them upon his death.
[5]
October 23 –
Battle of Grathe Heath : A civil war in
Denmark ends with the death of King
Sweyn III .
Valdemar I of Denmark becomes king of all Denmark, and restores and rebuilds the country.
[6]
Henry II of England grants a charter to the merchants of
Lincoln (approximate date).
[7]
Battle of Ewloe : Henry II of England invades
Wales , and is defeated by
Owain Gwynedd .
[8]
Births
Tomoe Gozen
Deaths
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ISBN
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^ Partenheimer, Luiz (2017).
"A Success Story: Brandenburg in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries" . In Loud, Graham A.; Schenk, Jochen (eds.). The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350: Essays by German Historians . London and New York: Taylor & Francis. pp. 298–301.
ISBN
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^
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"The 12th century seismic paroxysm in the Middle East: a historical perspective" (PDF) . Annals of Geophysics . 47 (2–3).
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^ Reilly, Bernard F. (1998).
The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157 . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 136.
ISBN
9780812234527 .
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ISBN
9781438129167 .
^ Holt, Richard (2000).
"Society and Population 600 - 1300" . In Palliser, D. M.; Clark, Peter; Daunton, Martin J. (eds.). The Cambridge Urban History of Britain . Vol. 600–1540. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 88.
ISBN
9780521444613 .
^ Venning, Timothy (2013).
The Kings & Queens of Wales . Stroud, UK: Amberley Publishing Limited.
ISBN
9781445615776 .
^ Fulton, Michael S. (2018).
Artillery in the Era of the Crusades: Siege Warfare and the Development of Trebuchet Technology . History of Warfare. Vol. 122. Leiden, Boston: BRILL. p. 124.
ISBN
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^ Howlett, Richard (2012).
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ISBN
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^ Magill, Frank N. (2012) [1998].
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ISBN
9781136593130 .
^ Loud, G. A. (2010).
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ISBN
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^ Huffman Jr., Domer J. (2016).
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ISBN
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^ Bauer, Susan Wise (2013).
"Chapter Nineteen: Foreign Relations" . The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople . New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 134.
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^ Flood, Timothy M. (2019).
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ISBN
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^ Woodward, Bernard Bolingbroke; Cates, William Leist Readwin (1872).
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ISBN
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