1146

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political events

Poland's high duke Wladyslaw's younger brothers force him into exile and vie for power in the provinces given them by their late father, Boleslav III (see 1138). One of the brothers succeeds Wladyslaw as Boleslav IV.

religion

Pope Eugene III is forced to leave Rome once again in January as Arnold of Brescia proclaims his Roman republic (see 1145). Eugene issues another bull March 1 repeating his call for a new crusade, will travel to France, and not return to Italy until June 1148.

Eleanor of Aquitaine announces at Vézelay on Easter Sunday that she is turning over her thousands of vassals to the Abbé Bernard of Clairvaux for a Second Crusade (see 1145). Now 24, she vows to lead it herself (see 1147).

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1110s  1120s  1130s  – 1140s –  1150s  1160s  1170s
Years:	1143 1144 1145 – 1146 – 1147 1148 1149

1146 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

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Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1146 in poetry v • d • e

1146 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1146 MCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	1899
Armenian calendar	595 ԹՎ ՇՂԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-698 – -697
Berber calendar	2096
Buddhist calendar	1690
Burmese calendar	508
Byzantine calendar	6654 – 6655
Chinese calendar	乙丑年閏十一月十七日 (3782/3842-intercalary 11-17) — to — 丙寅年十一月廿六日 (3783/3843-11-26)
Coptic calendar	862 – 863
Ethiopian calendar	1138 – 1139
Hebrew calendar	4906 – 4907
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1201 – 1202
- Shaka Samvat	1068 – 1069
- Kali Yuga	4247 – 4248
Holocene calendar	11146
Iranian calendar	524 – 525
Islamic calendar	540 – 541
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3479
Thai solar calendar	1689
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Events

• Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy. In a repeat of the events of 1096, Crusaders attack and massacre Jewish communities along the Rhine. Bernard de Clairvaux condemns these pogroms in strong terms, reminding the Crusaders that those who attacked the Jewish people during the previous Crusade came to a sorry end and were massacred to the last man by the Turks.
• Ildeniz, atabeg of Azerbaijan founds an dynasty, being the first independent Turkish dynasty of Azerbaijan
• The city of Bryansk is first mentioned in written records.
• The Almohad caliph Abd al-Mu'min conquers most of Morocco from the Almoravids.

Births

• Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh clergyman and chronicler (approximate date; d. c. 1223)
• William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1219)

Deaths

• August 1—Vsevolod II of Kiev
• August 8—Eric III of Denmark
• September 14—Zengi, ruler of Syria (assassinated) (b. 1087)

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