1153

This article is about the year 1153. For the number, see 1153 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1120s  1130s  1140s  – 1150s –  1160s  1170s  1180s
Years:	1150 1151 1152 – 1153 – 1154 1155 1156

1153 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1153 in poetry

1153 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1153 MCLIII
Ab urbe condita	1906
Armenian calendar	602 ԹՎ ՈԲ
Assyrian calendar	5903
Bengali calendar	560
Berber calendar	2103
English Regnal year	18 Ste. 1 – 19 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1697
Burmese calendar	515
Byzantine calendar	6661–6662
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 3849 or 3789     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3850 or 3790
Coptic calendar	869–870
Discordian calendar	2319
Ethiopian calendar	1145–1146
Hebrew calendar	4913–4914
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1209–1210
- Shaka Samvat	1075–1076
- Kali Yuga	4254–4255
Holocene calendar	11153
Igbo calendar	153–154
Iranian calendar	531–532
Islamic calendar	547–548
Japanese calendar	Ninpei 3 (仁平３年)
Julian calendar	1153 MCLIII
Korean calendar	3486
Minguo calendar	759 before ROC 民前759年
Seleucid era	1464/1465 AG
Thai solar calendar	1695–1696

Year 1153 (MCLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• With the support of Muslim troops, the Normans suppress a rebellion in Sicilian-controlled island of Djerba and invade the island of Kerkenna.

Asia

• Taira no Kiyomori assumes control of the Taira clan.
• Islam is introduced to the Maldives.

Middle East

• August 19 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
• Andronikos I Komnenos is imprisoned for conspiring against Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
• Raynald of Châtillon marries Constance of Antioch and becomes Prince of Antioch.

Europe

• January 6 – Henry of Anjou arrives in England hoping to dethrone the reigning monarch, Stephen of England, and replace him with Henry's mother, Empress Matilda.
• May 24 – Malcolm IV succeeds his grandfather as King of Scotland at the age of 12 and on May 27 is crowned at Scone Priory.
• November 6 – The Treaty of Wallingford, under the direction of Theobald of Bec, reconciles Stephen of England and Matilda, ending "The Anarchy" which has occurred during their fight for the throne of England. The treaty grants the throne to Stephen for the duration of his life, but makes Matilda's son, Henry of Anjou, the heir apparent.
• The city of Oberglatt (in modern-day Switzerland) is first mentioned in written literature.
• Confronted with important financial difficulty due to the expenses of its Spanish crusade, the Republic of Genoa has to sell the city of Tortosa to the count of Barcelona, which had been conquered in 1148 during that same crusade.

By topic

Demography

• Estimation: Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Merv in the Seljuk Empire.

Religion

• July 12 – Pope Anastasius IV succeeds Pope Eugene III as the 168th pope.

Births

• August 17 – William IX, Count of Poitiers (d. 1156)
• Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht (d. 1224)
• Kamo no Chōmei, a Japanese author, poet (waka), and essayist

Deaths

• May 24 – King David I of Scotland (b. 1084)
• July 8 – Pope Eugene III
• August 16 – Bernard de Tremelay, fourth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (at the Siege of Ascalon)
• August 17 – Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, son of Stephen, King of England (b. c. 1130)
• August 21 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French churchman (b. 1090)
• December 16 – Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester (b. c. 1100)
• Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford (b. 1115)
• Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess and historian (b. 1083)