1140

This page relates to the year 1140 Calendrier Julien.

Events

The Middle East

  • Zanki besieges Damas which calls upon the Francs: a treaty is concluded and the fortress of Panyas is delivered to the Francs in exchange of their support. Zanki, pushed back Syria, is devoted to the fight against the Kurdish Ortoqides and the around Mosul.

Europe

  • Taken again reconquest in Spain under the impulse Castilian, which progresses of the Duero to the central cordillera; the Aragon and the Navarre reach the Èbre.
  • the Hospitaliers become a military order.

Art & culture

  • June 9th: Dedication of the Western frontage of the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
  • July 14th: Pose first stone of the Gothic bedside of style of the Basilique of Saint-Denis by the abbot of Saint-Denis Suger.

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
    • Jean de Worcester carries out a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronique, written at the 9th century.

    • Beginning of the construction of the palatine vault of Palermo.
    • Foundation of the monastery Saint-Cyrille-to-Dorogojitch with Kiev.
    • Publication of the Decree or Harmony of the unmatched guns ( Concordia discorantium canonum ) of Gratien (monk of Bologna): old texts of right calling upon the techniques of dialectical “ pro ” and “ countered ”.
    • Beginning of the period of the Canon S Augustins in the Abbey of Abundance

Births in 1140

Death in 1140

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