1140
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Events

• June 3 - Pierre Abelard is condemned for heresy by a church court in Sens, France.
• Henry Jasomirgott is made count palatine of the Rhine.
• The town of Lanark in Scotland is made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland.
• Camaldolite monk Gratian founds the science of Canon law with the publication of the Decretum.
• Marburg becomes a town.
• The Assizes of Ariano are enacted by Roger II of Sicily.
• Roger II of Sicily takes the practice of medicine under royal control.

Births

• May 28 — Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
• Minamoto no Yoshihira, Japanese warrior (d. 1160)

Deaths

• February 6 — Thurstan, Archbishop of York
• February 14 — Leo I of Armenia
• Orderic Vitalis, monk and historian