1144

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1144 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1144
MCXLIV
Ab urbe condita 1897
Armenian calendar 593
ԹՎ ՇՂԳ
Assyrian calendar 5894
Balinese saka calendar 1065–1066
Bengali calendar 550–551
Berber calendar 2094
English Regnal year 9  Ste. 1   10  Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar 1688
Burmese calendar 506
Byzantine calendar 6652–6653
Chinese calendar 癸亥年 (Water  Pig)
3841 or 3634
     to 
甲子年 (Wood  Rat)
3842 or 3635
Coptic calendar 860–861
Discordian calendar 2310
Ethiopian calendar 1136–1137
Hebrew calendar 4904–4905
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1200–1201
 - Shaka Samvat 1065–1066
 - Kali Yuga 4244–4245
Holocene calendar 11144
Igbo calendar 144–145
Iranian calendar 522–523
Islamic calendar 538–539
Japanese calendar Kōji 3 / Ten'yō 1
(天養元年)
Javanese calendar 1050–1051
Julian calendar 1144
MCXLIV
Korean calendar 3477
Minguo calendar 768 before ROC
民前768年
Nanakshahi calendar −324
Seleucid era 1455/1456 AG
Thai solar calendar 1686–1687
Tibetan calendar ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Water-Boar)
1270 or 889 or 117
     to 
ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Rat)
1271 or 890 or 118
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Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, becomes Duke of Normandy

Year 1144 ( MCXLIV ) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Contents

Events

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Levant

  • Autumn Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk governor ( atabeg ) of Mosul, attacks the Artuqid forces led by Kara Arslan – who has made an alliance with Joscelin II, count of Edessa. In support of the alliance Joscelin marches out of Edessa with a Crusader army down to the Euphrates River, to cut off Zengi's communications with Aleppo. Zengi is informed by Muslim observers at Harran of Joscelin's movements. He sends a detachment of Muslims to ambush the Crusaders and reaches Edessa with his main army in late November. [1]
  • December 24 Siege of Edessa: Seljuk forces led by Imad al-Din Zengi conquer the fortress city of Edessa after a four-week siege. Thousands of inhabitants are massacred – only the Muslims are spared. The women and children are sold into slavery. [2] This eliminates the Crusader principality of Outremer. Lacking the forces to take on Zengi, Joscelin II retires to his fortress at Turbessel. There, he requests reinforcements from the Byzantines and Queen-Regent Melisende of Jerusalem. This will lead to the Pope preaching a Second Crusade.

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References

  1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 190. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 190–191. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. Mallinus, Daniel. La Yougoslavie. Brussels: Éd. Artis-Historia, 1988. D/1988/0832/27, pp. 37–39.
  4. Picard, C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. p.76.
  5. Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5. 37: 31–47 [45]. doi:10.2307/3679149. JSTOR   3679149.