1145
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Events

• Estimation: Merv in the Seljuk Empire becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
• February 15 — Pietro Bernardo Paganelli of Montemagno, Calci is elected as Pope Eugene III, and succeeds Pope Lucius II as the 167th pope.
• Pope Eugene III issues the bull Quantum praedecessores, calling for the Second Crusade.
• Construction begins on Notre-Dame d'Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France.
• Kim Pusik and his team of historians finish the compilation of the Korean historical text Samguk Sagi.
• Woburn Abbey is founded.
• Arnold of Brescia joins the revolutionary Commune of Rome, where he becomes its intellectual leader for the next decade.

Births

• Maria of Antioch, Byzantine Empress (d. 1182)
• Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1184)
• Marie de Champagne, Countess of Champagne (d. 1198)
• Theodora Comnena, Queen of Jerusalem (approximate year)
• Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia (d. 1167)
• Pope Gregory IX (approximate year) (d. 1241)
• Ibn Jubayr, geographer, traveler and poet (d. 1217)
• Manuel Komnenos, son of Andronikos Komnenos (d. 1185)
• Al-Adil I, Ayyubid-Egyptian general and ruler (d. 1218)
• Amalric II of Jerusalem (d. 1205)

Deaths

• February 15 — Pope Lucius II
• Zhang Zeduan, Chinese painter (born 1085)