1114

Year 1114 (MCXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1114 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1114
MCXIV
Ab urbe condita1867
Armenian calendar563
ԹՎ ՇԿԳ
Assyrian calendar5864
Balinese saka calendar1035–1036
Bengali calendar521
Berber calendar2064
English Regnal year14 Hen. 1  15 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar1658
Burmese calendar476
Byzantine calendar6622–6623
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
3810 or 3750
     to 
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3811 or 3751
Coptic calendar830–831
Discordian calendar2280
Ethiopian calendar1106–1107
Hebrew calendar4874–4875
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1170–1171
 - Shaka Samvat1035–1036
 - Kali Yuga4214–4215
Holocene calendar11114
Igbo calendar114–115
Iranian calendar492–493
Islamic calendar507–508
Japanese calendarEikyū 2
(永久2年)
Javanese calendar1019–1020
Julian calendar1114
MCXIV
Korean calendar3447
Minguo calendar798 before ROC
民前798年
Nanakshahi calendar−354
Seleucid era1425/1426 AG
Thai solar calendar1656–1657
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1240 or 859 or 87
     to 
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1241 or 860 or 88
Empress Matilda (Maude) (1102–1167)

Events

Europe

  • January 7 Emperor Henry V marries Matilda (or Maude), 11-year-old daughter of King Henry I of England, at Worms (modern Germany). A political conflict breaks out across the Holy Roman Empire after the marriage, triggered when Henry arrests Chancellor Adalbert and various other German princes.[1]
  • Count Ramon Berenguer III (the Great) of Barcelona, joins the expedition to the Balearic Islands. A Pisan and Catalan fleet (some 450 ships), supported by a large army, conquer Ibiza and Mallorca. They destroy the bases on the islands used by Moorish pirates to prey on Mediterranean shipping.
  • Battle of Martorell: The Almoravid governor of Zaragoza, Muhàmmad ibn al-Hajj, launches an offensive against the County of Barcelona, but is defeated by Ramon Berenguer III.[2]
  • As part of the Norman expansion southward, Count Routrou II of Perche enters the service of King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon.[3]

Asia

  • Emperor Hui Zong of the Song Dynasty sends a gift of Chinese musical instruments, for use in royal banquets to the Korean court of Goryeo, by request from King Yejong.

Earthquake

Religion

  • The cathedral of Chichester in England, constructed of wood, is destroyed by fire.[5]
  • Pontigny Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, is founded (located in Burgundy).

Births

  • Al-Suhayli, Moorish scholar and writer (d. 1185)
  • Bhāskara II, Indian mathematician (d. 1185)
  • Dirk VI (or Theodoric), count of Holland (d. 1157)
  • Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese nobleman (d. 1204)
  • Gebhard III, German nobleman (approximate date)
  • Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator (d. 1187)
  • Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumbria (d. 1152)
  • Otto I, German bishop and chronicler (d. 1158)
  • Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona (d. 1162)

Deaths

  • February 24 Thomas II, archbishop of York
  • October Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah.
  • Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian (or 1115)
  • Álvar Fáñez (or Háñez), Castilian nobleman
  • Alypius of the Caves, Kievan monk and painter
  • Erard I, French nobleman and crusader (b. 1060)
  • Nestor the Chronicler, Kievan historian (or 1113)
  • Richard of Salerno, Norman nobleman (b. 1060)
  • Shahriyar IV, king of Mazandaran (b. 1039)
  • Tokushi, Japanese empress consort (b. 1060)

References

  1. Marjorie Chibnall (1991). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English, p. 27. London, UK: Basil Blackwell, ISBN 978-0-631-15737-3.
  2. Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 86.
  3. McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History. 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
  4. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 105. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  5. "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 25.
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