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| 1152 |
| | | Frederick Barbarossa becomes king of Germany and Holy Roman emperor, greatly extending the power of the empire during a long reign | |
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| 1154 |
| | | The inhabitants of Damascus surrender their city to Nur ed-Din, helping him greatly in his campaign against the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem | |
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| 1154 |
| | | Henry II, coming to the throne of England, is king or feudal overlord of an unbroken swathe of territory from the Tweed to the Pyrenees | |
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| 1156 |
| | | Vienna is adopted by the Babenberg rulers as the capital city of Austria | |
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| 1157 |
| | | A Russian prince, Andrei Bogolyubski, makes his capital east of Moscow at Vladimir, where he builds a cathedral and several churches | |
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| 1159 |
| | | Henry the Lion builds a new town at Lübeck, well placed to develop as the centre of the Hanseatic League | |
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| c. 1160 |
| | | Chrétien de Troyes and other French authors turn the stories of Arthur and his knights into a romance of courtly love | |
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| 1162 |
| | | Thomas Becket, Lord Chancellor to Henry II, is forced by the king to accept the vacant post of archbishop of Canterbury | |
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| 1164 |
| | | Thomas Becket, having offended the king by his firm stand as archbishop of Canterbury, flees to a monastery near Paris | |
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| 1169 |
| | | Normans land in Ireland, seize Wexford, and in the following year capture Waterford and Dublin | |
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