1148

Year 1148 (MCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. 

Events 
 Africa 
 Taking advantage of internal strife and a famine episode, George of Antioch takes Mahdia (June 22), Susa (July 1) and Sfax (July 12) in Tunisia, in the name of Roger II of Sicily. 
 The Anglo-Flemish Crusader fleet takes Oran. 
 Following the uprising of other cities of the region (Meknes, Sijilmasa) under al-Massati, the population of Ceuta rebels against the Almohads. 

 Asia 
 Battle of Ghazni: Saif-ud-din of Ghor defeats Bahram Shah. 
 Siege of Damascus in the Second Crusade:
 June – The Second Crusade reaches Jerusalem.  They meet at the Council of Acre and decide to attack Damascus. 
 July 29 – The Siege of Damascus ends in failure for the Crusaders. 
 Anna Komnene writes the Alexiad, a biography of her father, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. 

 Europe 
 King Afonso I of Portugal takes Abrantes from the Moors. 
 December 30 – Siege of Tortosa. 

Births 
 Qiu Chuji, Chinese Taoist (d. 1227)
 Urraca of Portugal, queen consort of Leon (d. 1211)

Deaths 
 January 6
 Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1100)
 William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
 April – Amadeus III, Count of Savoy (b. 1095)
 August 21 – William II, Count of Nevers (b. c. 1089)
 September 17 – Conan III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1070)
 November 2 – Saint Malachy (b. 1094)
 date unknown – Alphonse I, Count of Toulouse (b. 1103)
 Ulvhild Håkansdotter, queen consort of Sweden and Denmark (approximate date)

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