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| 1144 |
| | | The new abbey church of St Denis is consecrated near Paris, introducing the style of architecture later known as Gothic | |
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| 1144 |
| | | The city of Edessa is captured by Zangi, a Mameluke general, in the first setback for the crusaders in the Middle East | |
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| 1144 |
| | | The fall of Edessa prompts the pope, Eugenius III, to call for a second crusade to defend the Latin kingdom | |
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| c. 1145 |
| | | A new form of pious devotion is seen in Chartres, with people painfully dragging wagons of stone to enlarge the cathedral | |
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| 1145 |
| | | A bishop in the crusader territories of the Middle East has news of a fabulously wealthy Christian king, Prester John | |
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| 1147 |
| | | Rival Berber tribesmen, the Almohads, evict the Almoravids from Marrakech and soon conquer the whole north African coast | |
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| 1147 |
| | | Alfonso I takes Lisbon from the Muslims, with the unexpected help of some passing English crusaders | |
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| 1147 |
| | | Gilbert of Hastings, an English priest, becomes bishop of the recovered see of Lisbon - the first of many such links between England and Portugal | |
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| 1147 |
| | | The second crusade is led east by two kings, Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany | |
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| 1147 |
| | | Seville falls to the Almohads, from north Africa, who make it their Spanish capital | |
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