1106

Year 1106 (MCVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1106 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1106
MCVI
Ab urbe condita1859
Armenian calendar555
ԹՎ ՇԾԵ
Assyrian calendar5856
Balinese saka calendar1027–1028
Bengali calendar513
Berber calendar2056
English Regnal year6 Hen. 1  7 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar1650
Burmese calendar468
Byzantine calendar6614–6615
Chinese calendar乙酉年 (Wood Rooster)
3802 or 3742
     to 
丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
3803 or 3743
Coptic calendar822–823
Discordian calendar2272
Ethiopian calendar1098–1099
Hebrew calendar4866–4867
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1162–1163
 - Shaka Samvat1027–1028
 - Kali Yuga4206–4207
Holocene calendar11106
Igbo calendar106–107
Iranian calendar484–485
Islamic calendar499–500
Japanese calendarChōji 3 / Kajō 1
(嘉承元年)
Javanese calendar1011–1012
Julian calendar1106
MCVI
Korean calendar3439
Minguo calendar806 before ROC
民前806年
Nanakshahi calendar−362
Seleucid era1417/1418 AG
Thai solar calendar1648–1649
Tibetan calendar阴木鸡年
(female Wood-Rooster)
1232 or 851 or 79
     to 
阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
1233 or 852 or 80
Medieval picture of Battle of Tinchebray

the Events

Europe

  • Spring Bohemond I, prince of Antioch, marries Constance of France (daughter of King Philip I) in the cathedral of Chartres. Philip agrees to marry his second daughter, the 9-year-old Cecile of France, to Tancred (nephew of Bohemond). Meanwhile, Bohemond mobilises an expeditionary force (some 30,000 men) to begin a campaign against Emperor Alexios I (Komnenos).[1]
  • August 7 Emperor Henry IV escapes his captors at Ingelheim. He enters into negotiations at Cologne with English, French and Danish noblemen, and begins to collect an army to oppose his son Henry V but dies at Liège after a 49-year reign. Henry leads a successful expedition against Count Robert II of Flanders and is forced to swear his allegiance to him.
  • September 28 Battle of Tinchebray: King Henry I defeats and imprisons his older brother Robert II (Curthose), duke of Normandy, in Devizes Castle. Edgar Atheling (uncle of Henry's wife) and the 3-year-old William Clito, son of Robert, are also taken prisoner. Henry places his nephew William in the custody of Helias of Saint-Saens, count of Arques.[2]
  • Autumn Bohemond I returns to Apulia (Southern Italy) with an expeditionary force to prepare an offensive against the Byzantines. He is accompanied by his newlywed wife Constance (who is pregnant by him) and followers.
  • Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin dies after a 45-year reign. He is succeeded by his 22-year-old son Ali ibn Yusuf as ruler of the Almoravid Empire. Ali appoints his brother Tamin ibn Yusuf as governor of Al-Andalus (modern Spain).
  • Bolesław III (Wrymouth), duke of Poland, begins a civil war against his half-brother Zbigniew, for control over Lesser Poland and Silesia.
  • The city of Balaguer (located in Catalonia) is conquered from the Moors by Ermengol VI, count of Urgell.

England

  • Roger le Poer, bishop of Salisbury, is granted land in south Wales by Henry I. He starts the construction of Kidwelly Castle on the banks of the river Gwendraeth.
  • Magnus Erlendsson becomes Earl of Orkney (until 1115).[3]

Astronomy

  • February 2 A comet (the Great Comet of 1106) is seen and reported by several civilisations around the world. Lasting for 40 days, the comet grows steadily in brightness until finally fading away.[4]

Births :)

  • Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine co-emperor (d. 1142)
  • Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1198)
  • David FitzGerald, bishop of St. Davids (d. 1176)
  • Fujiwara no Michinori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1160)
  • Hugh II (du Puiset), French nobleman (d. 1134)
  • Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (d. 1141)
  • Ibn Asakir, Syrian scholar and historian (d. 1175)
  • Jeong Jung-bu, Korean military leader (d. 1179)
  • Magnus I (Nilsson), king of Sweden (d. 1134)
  • Matilda of Anjou, duchess of Normandy (d. 1154)
  • Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese military leader (d. 1180)
  • Xing (or Xing Shi), Chinese empress (d. 1139)

Deaths :(

  • February 3 Khalaf ibn Mula'ib, Uqaylid emir
  • April 16 Arnold I, Lotharingian nobleman
  • May 1 Conon (or Cuno), Lotharingian nobleman
  • May 19 Geoffrey IV (Martel), French nobleman
  • June 16 Benno, bishop of Meissen (b. 1010)
  • June 24 Yan Vyshatich, Kievan nobleman
  • August 7 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
  • August 23 Magnus, German nobleman (b. 1045)
  • September 13 Peter (Pierre), French nobleman
  • September 17 Manasses II, archbishop of Reims
  • October 7 Hugh of Die, French bishop (b. 1040)
  • Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, Syrian jurist and philologist
  • Domnall Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht
  • Gonzalo Núñez de Lara, Castilian nobleman
  • Hugh of Fauquembergues, prince of Galilee (or 1105)
  • Jikirmish (or Jekermish), Seljuk ruler (atabeg)
  • John of Lodi, Italian hermit and bishop (b. 1025)
  • Li Gonglin, Chinese painter and antiquarian (b. 1049)
  • Lothair Udo III, margrave of the Nordmark (b. 1070)
  • Máel Muire mac Céilechair, Irish cleric and writer
  • Minamoto no Yoshiie, Japanese samurai (b. 1039)
  • Nathan ben Jehiel, Italian Jewish lexicographer
  • Richard II (the Bald), prince of Capua (or 1105)
  • Yusuf ibn Tashfin, sultan of Morocco (b. 1009)

References

  1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 39. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. C. Warren Hollister (2003). Henry I, p. 206. (Yale University Press, New Haven & London)
  3. Muir, Tom (2005). Orkney in the Sagas: The Story of the Earldom of Orkney as told in the Icelandic Sagas. Kirkwall: The Orcadian. p. 63. ISBN 0954886232.
  4. Cometography.com
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