1153
Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Decades: 1100s 1110s 1120s 1130s 1140s - 1150s - 1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s 1200s
Years: 1148 1149 1150 1151 1152 - 1153 - 1154 1155 1156 1157 1158
Events
- January 6 - Henry of Anjou arrives in England
- May 24 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland
- July 9 - Anastasius IV becomes pope
- Theobald of Bec reconciles Stephen of England and Matilda, ending "The Anarchy" and allowing Matilda's son Henry of Anjou to succeed as king (in 1154)
- The Angevin dynasty takes control of Gascony and Guyenne
- Andronicus Comnenus is imprisoned for conspiring against Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus
- Raynald of Chatillon marries Constance of Antioch and becomes Prince of Antioch
- Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon
- Taira no Kiyomori assumes control of the Taira clan
- William, Count of Poitiers, son of Henry of Anjou and Eleanor of Aquitaine (possibly 1152)
- William II, King of Sicily
- June 7 - Pope Eugene III
- August 21: Bernard of Clairvaux, preacher of the Second Crusade
- David I, King of Scotland
- Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England
