1146

Events 
 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux prays for the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy.
 First information about Bryansk found.

 Births 
 Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh clergyman and chronicler (d. around 1223)
 William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1219)

 Deaths 
 August 1 — Vsevolod II of Kiev
 August 8 — Eric III of Denmark
 September 14 — Zengi, ruler of Syria (murdered) (b. 1087)