1100

Year 1100 (MC) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1100th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 100th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 11th century, and the 1st year of the 1100s decade. In the proleptic Gregorian calendar, it was a non-leap century year starting on Monday (like 1900).

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1100 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1100
MC
Ab urbe condita1853
Armenian calendar549
ԹՎ ՇԽԹ
Assyrian calendar5850
Balinese saka calendar1021–1022
Bengali calendar507
Berber calendar2050
English Regnal year13 Will. 2  1 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar1644
Burmese calendar462
Byzantine calendar6608–6609
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
3796 or 3736
     to 
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
3797 or 3737
Coptic calendar816–817
Discordian calendar2266
Ethiopian calendar1092–1093
Hebrew calendar4860–4861
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1156–1157
 - Shaka Samvat1021–1022
 - Kali Yuga4200–4201
Holocene calendar11100
Igbo calendar100–101
Iranian calendar478–479
Islamic calendar493–494
Japanese calendarKōwa 2
(康和2年)
Javanese calendar1005–1006
Julian calendar1100
MC
Korean calendar3433
Minguo calendar812 before ROC
民前812年
Nanakshahi calendar−368
Seleucid era1411/1412 AG
Thai solar calendar1642–1643
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1226 or 845 or 73
     to 
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1227 or 846 or 74
The Eastern Hemisphere in 1100

Events

Levant

Europe

  • August 2 King William II (or William Rufus) dies in a hunting accident in the New Forest. Sir Walter Tirel is accused of having shot the arrow, but flees the country to avoid a trial. Henry I claims the throne.
  • August 5 Henry I is crowned King of England, at Westminster Abbey. The power of the new monarch is ill-assured, and to mollify the barons he has to grant them the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of a written constitution in Europe.[5]
  • August 30 After the failure of the Council of Liubech in 1097, the Congress of Vytechev establishes peace and the feudal system in Kievan Rus; the princes come to an agreement to share the country between them. Sviatopolk II of Kiev becomes the first Grand Prince.
  • September 16 Battle of Malagon: The Almoravid army defeats the Castellan troops.[6]
  • September 23 Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury returns from exile, at the invitation of Henry I.
  • October 18 Peter I of Aragon conquers Barbastro (modern Spain) from the hands of the Almoravids.[7][8]
  • November 11 - Henry I marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of King Malcolm III and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside.
  • Henry I grants the ownership of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight to Richard de Redvers, a Norman nobleman.
  • November 18 The Council of Poitiers opens, but is soon forcibly closed by William IX, duke of Aquitaine, as the bishops were about to excommunicate King Philip I once more.[9]
  • December 25 Philip I elevates his son Louis VI as co-ruler to the government of the realm.
  • In Iceland, the Althing decides that the laws should be transferred to a written form (approximate date).
  • Intense urban activity in north and central Europe: Kalmar (Kungälv) and Varberg (Sweden) are chartered; The cities of Aach (southern Germany) and Nakléřov in Bohemia are created. The castle of Burg Eppstein is built in central Germany.
  • Philip I conquers the Vexin area, and adds the city of Bourges and the province of Berry to his estate.[10]

Africa

  • Tuareg traders establish the city of Timbuktu (modern Mali) north of Djenné along the Niger River. Timbuktu will later achieve fame as a center of Islamic learning. The Sankore, Djinguereber and Sidi Yahya mosques are among Timbuktu's most famous religious and scholarly institutions (approximate date).

China

  • February 23 Emperor Zhe Zong dies after a 15-year reign. He is succeeded by his 17-year-old brother Hui Zong as ruler of the Song Dynasty.
  • In Kaifeng, capital of the Song Dynasty, is the number of registered citizens within the walls about 1,050,000. The army stationed there boosts the overall populace to some 1.4 million people.
  • The Liao Dynasty crushes the Zubu, a tribute state of the Khitan Empire, and takes their khan prisoner.
  • The Chinese population reaches about 100 million during the Song Dynasty (approximate date).

Americas

  • Oraibi, a Hopi village in Navajo County, becomes the oldest populated settlement in modern-day Arizona (United States).
  • The Ancestral Puebloans culture, located in the modern-day Four Corners (United States), rises (approximate date).
  • The city of Cusco (modern Peru) is founded (approximate date).

Religion

  • September 8 Antipope Clement III dies at Civita Castellana after a 20-year reign in opposition to the legitimate popes Gregory VII, Victor III and Urban II. Supporters of Emperor Henry IV in Rome choose Theodoric as his successor.
  • Frederick I becomes archbishop of Cologne, and begins the construction of the castle of Volmarstein.
  • The Stift St. Georgen Abbey is founded near Sankt Georgen am Längsee (modern Austria).
  • The Diocese of Faroe is founded (approximate date).

Technology

2 August: death of William II during a hunt, killed by an arrow of Walter Tirel.

Births

  • May 19 Judith of Bavaria, duchess of Swabia (d. 1130)
  • May 23 Qin Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1161)
  • Achard of Saint Victor, Norman bishop (d. 1171)
  • Adrian IV, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1159)
  • Albert I (the Bear), margrave of Brandenburg (d. 1170)
  • Alexander III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1181)
  • Anselm of Havelberg, German bishop (approximate date)
  • Arnold I, archbishop of Cologne (approximate date)
  • Bruno II of Berg, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1137)
  • Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (d. 1134)
  • Elvira of Castile, queen of Sicily (approximate date)
  • Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1148)
  • Héloïse d'Argenteuil, French abbess and scholar (d. 1162)
  • Herman of Carinthia, German astronomer (d. 1160)
  • Hillin of Falmagne, archbishop of Trier (d. 1169)
  • Jabir ibn Aflah, Arab astronomer and mathematician (d. 1150)
  • John of Meda, Italian monk and abbot (d. 1159)
  • Muhammad al-Idrisi, Almoravid geographer (d. 1165)
  • Owain Gwynedd, king of Gwynedd (approximate date)
  • Jacob ben Meir Tam, French Jewish rabbi (d. 1171)
  • Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl Leicester (d. 1168)
  • Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby (d. 1162)
  • Robert of Melun, bishop of Hereford (d. 1167)
  • Robert of Newminster, English abbot (d. 1159)
  • Teobaldo Roggeri, Italian shoemaker (d. 1150)

Deaths

  • February 23 Zhe Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1077)
  • February 25 Gerland, bishop of Agrigento
  • March 28 Adelaide of Weimar-Orlamünde, German noblewoman
  • July 18 Godfrey of Bouillon, French nobleman (b. 1060)
  • July 23 Warner of Grez, French nobleman
  • August 2 William II (or William Rufus), king of England
  • September 8 Clement III, antipope of Rome
  • September 16 Bernold of Constance, German chronicler
  • October 13 Guy I (or Wido), French nobleman
  • November 18 Thomas of Bayeux, archbishop of York
  • December 22 Bretislav II, duke of Bohemia
  • Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi, Hanafi-Maturidi scholar (b. 1030)
  • Azzo of Gobatsburg, Swedish nobleman (approximate date)
  • Geoffrey de Mandeville, Constable of the Tower
  • Geoffrey the Elder, Italo-Norman nobleman
  • Jaya Pala, Indian ruler of the Kamarupa Kingdom (b. 1075)
  • Qin Guan, Chinese poet and writer (approximate date)
  • Qutb al-din Hasan, ruler (malik) of the Ghurid Dynasty
  • Robert de Stafford, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
  • Lady Six Monkey, queen regnant of the Mixtec city State of Huachino (d. 1100)

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