History
1150
General
Population: 350 Million*
- Entertainment: Black Book of Carmarthen – oldest Welsh manuscript
Troubadour music in southern France becomes organized
- Medicine: Medical faculty instated at Bologna U
- Science: William of Conches publishes work on natural world
Abbess and polymath Hildegard of Bingen authors work on the unicorn stating that it is attracted to high-born women and not peasants
- Technology: Arabs in Spain manufacture paper - first in Europe
Chinese travelers use magnetic compass
- Deaths: Suryavarman II of Cambodia
Africa
- Zagwe dynasty rules in Ethiopian highlands
Americas
- North America: Continuation of Hohokam culture in NM and AZ
End of Hopewell culture
Asia
- Cambodia: Death of Suryavarman II
S.E. Asian temple of Angkor Wot completed
- Ghazni: Alauddin Husain the Sultan of Ghor destroys the empire of Ghazni
Europe
- General: Scholasticism in Europe
- France: University of Paris founded
- German States: Albert the Bear inherits Brandenburg
- Spanish States: End of conquest of Almohades
- Sweden: Eric the Saint becomes King
Pacific
- New Zealand: Maoris begin to settle in river mouth areas
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