1140

This article is about the year 1140. For the number, see 1140 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1137 1138 1139 – 1140 – 1141 1142 1143

1140 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1140 in poetry

1140 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1140 MCXL
Ab urbe condita	1893
Armenian calendar	589 ԹՎ ՇՁԹ
Assyrian calendar	5890
Bengali calendar	547
Berber calendar	2090
English Regnal year	5 Ste. 1 – 6 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1684
Burmese calendar	502
Byzantine calendar	6648–6649
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 3836 or 3776     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3837 or 3777
Coptic calendar	856–857
Discordian calendar	2306
Ethiopian calendar	1132–1133
Hebrew calendar	4900–4901
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1196–1197
- Shaka Samvat	1062–1063
- Kali Yuga	4241–4242
Holocene calendar	11140
Igbo calendar	140–141
Iranian calendar	518–519
Islamic calendar	534–535
Japanese calendar	Hōen 6 (保延６年)
Julian calendar	1140 MCXL
Korean calendar	3473
Minguo calendar	772 before ROC 民前772年
Seleucid era	1451/1452 AG
Thai solar calendar	1682–1683

Year 1140 (MCXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Europe

• December 21 – Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg, the stronghold of Welfs.
• Henry Jasomirgott is made count palatine of the Rhine.
• The town of Lanark in Scotland is made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland.
• Marburg becomes a town.
• The Assizes of Ariano are enacted by Roger II of Sicily.
• Roger II of Sicily places the practice of medicine under royal control.

By topic

Religion

• June 3 – Pierre Abelard is condemned for heresy by a church court in Sens, France.
• September 8 – Sephardi Jewish philosopher Judah Halevi, having completed the Kuzari, arrives in Alexandria on a pilgrimage to Palestine.
• The first Cistercian monastery in Spain is founded in Fitero. The order enjoys a rapid expansion in the region in the following 15 years.
• Camaldolite monk Gratian founds the science of Canon law with the publication of the Decretum Gratiani.

Births

• May 28 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
• Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (d. 1160)

Deaths

• January 12 – Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia
• February 6 – Thurstan, Archbishop of York
• February 14
  • Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia
  • Leo I, Prince of Armenia
• November 15 – Adelaide of Hungary, Duchess of Bohemia
• date unknown – Kitti Sri Megha, King of Dakkinadesa, Sri Lankan