Year 1151 (MCLI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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• September 7 Geoffrey of Anjou dies, and is succeeded by his son Henry, aged 18.

• After the Battle of Ghazni, the city is burned by the Prince of Ghur.

• The first plague and fire insurance policy is issued in Iceland.

• Bolton Abbey is founded in North Yorkshire, England.

• Anping Bridge is completed in China's Fujian province. Its total length will not be exceeded until 1846.

• Confronted with internal strife, the commune of Bologna is the first Italian republic to turn to the rule of a podestà, Guido di Ranieri da Sasso (it ends in 1155).

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Births

• April 3 Igor Svyatoslavich, Russian prince (d. 1202)

• May 9 al-Adid, last Fatimid caliph (d. 1171)

• Unkei, Japanese sculptor (d. 1223)

Deaths

• January 13 Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. c. 1081)

• April 23 Adeliza of Louvain, queen of Henry I of England (b. 1103)

• September 7 Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (b. 1113)

• Li Qingzhao, Chinese poet (b. 1084)

References