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| c. 1150 |
| | | After centuries of raiding the northern part of Sri Lanka, the Tamils establish a settled Hindu presence in the island | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | The biblical kings and queens in the west porch of Chartres cathedral are a striking early example of Gothic sculpture | |
|  | Chartres Cathedral, figures round north door
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| c. 1150 |
| | | Zen Buddhism reaches Japan from China and appeals greatly to the new samurai class | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | German merchants begin trading along the coasts of Latvia and Estonia, a region to which they give the name Livonia | |
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| 1150 |
| | | The merging of Catalonia with Aragon, by marriage, creates a power in northern Spain of comparable strength to Castile | |
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| 1152 |
| | | Frederick Barbarossa becomes king of Germany and Holy Roman emperor, greatly extending the power of the empire during a long reign | |
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| 1154 |
| | | The inhabitants of Damascus surrender their city to Nur ed-Din, helping him greatly in his campaign against the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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| 1154 |
| | | Henry II, coming to the throne of England, is king or feudal overlord of an unbroken swathe of territory from the Tweed to the Pyrenees | |
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| 1156 |
| | | Vienna is adopted by the Babenberg rulers as the capital city of Austria | |
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| 1157 |
| | | A Russian prince, Andrei Bogolyubski, makes his capital east of Moscow at Vladimir, where he builds a cathedral and several churches | |
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