1121

Year 1121 (MCXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1121 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1121
MCXXI
Ab urbe condita1874
Armenian calendar570
ԹՎ ՇՀ
Assyrian calendar5871
Balinese saka calendar1042–1043
Bengali calendar528
Berber calendar2071
English Regnal year21 Hen. 1  22 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar1665
Burmese calendar483
Byzantine calendar6629–6630
Chinese calendar庚子年 (Metal Rat)
3817 or 3757
     to 
辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
3818 or 3758
Coptic calendar837–838
Discordian calendar2287
Ethiopian calendar1113–1114
Hebrew calendar4881–4882
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1177–1178
 - Shaka Samvat1042–1043
 - Kali Yuga4221–4222
Holocene calendar11121
Igbo calendar121–122
Iranian calendar499–500
Islamic calendar514–515
Japanese calendarHōan 2
(保安2年)
Javanese calendar1026–1027
Julian calendar1121
MCXXI
Korean calendar3454
Minguo calendar791 before ROC
民前791年
Nanakshahi calendar−347
Seleucid era1432/1433 AG
Thai solar calendar1663–1664
Tibetan calendar阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1247 or 866 or 94
     to 
阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1248 or 867 or 95
David IV (the Builder) (1073–1125)

Events

Byzantine Empire

Levant

  • Summer Seljuk forces under Toghtekin make extensive raids into Galilee. King Baldwin II, in reprisal, crosses the Jordan River with a Crusader army, and ravages the countryside. He occupies and destroys a fortress that Toghtekin has built at Jerash.[1]

Europe

England

  • January 24 Adeliza of Louvain, age 17, marries King Henry I two months after the accidental death of the heir to the English throne, Henry's only legitimate son, William Adelin.

Eurasia

  • Summer Sultan Mahmud II of the Seljuk Empire declares a Holy War on Georgia. He sends an expedition under Ilghazi ibn Arttuq, Artukid ruler of Mardin, to invade Georgia.
  • August 12 Battle of Didgori: King David IV (the Builder) of Georgia, with a Georgian army (55,600 men), defeats the 300,000-strong Seljuk coalition forces at Mount Didgori.

Asia

  • Emperor Hui Zong sends an expedition to crush the rebellion at Hangzhou (modern-day Zhejiang) in China. The rebels are defeated, their leader Fang La is captured and executed.

Religion

  • Spring Peter Abelard, a French theologian and philosopher, is condemned and charged with the heresy of Sabellius in a synod at Soissons. Abelard writes Sic et Non.
  • April 22 Antipope Gregory VIII (supported by Emperor Henry V) is arrested by papal troops at Sutri. He is taken to Rome and imprisoned in the Septizonium.
  • December 25 (Christmas Day) The Praemonstratensian Order (Norbertines) is formed, when a group of canons make solemn vows at Prémontré.[3]
  • Henry I founds Reading Abbey in England. The Cluniac Order populates the abbey.
  • The third and largest church is completed at Cluny Abbey (modern France).[4]
  • L'Aumône Abbey is founded by Count Theobald IV of Blois at Loir-et-Cher.[5]

Births

Deaths

  • January 7 Erminold, German Benedictine abbot
  • January 18 William of Champeaux, French philosopher
  • February 10 Domnall Ua Lochlainn, Irish king (b. 1048)
  • March 2 Floris II (the Fat), count of Holland (b. 1085)
  • April 23 Jón Ögmundsson, Icelandic bishop (b. 1052)
  • August 7 Ulrich I (or Udalrich), German bishop
  • December 11 Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1066)
  • December 13 Ulrich of Eppenstein, German abbot
  • Abd al-Aziz ibn Mansur, Hammadid governor and ruler
  • Alfanus II (or Alfano), Lombard archbishop of Salerno
  • Al-Tughrai, Persian official, poet and alchemist (b. 1061)
  • Bartolf Leslie (or Bartholomew), Scottish nobleman
  • Fang La, Chinese rebel leader (executed in Kaifeng)
  • Frederick of Liege, German prince-bishop and saint
  • Lü Shinang, Chinese religious leader (Manichaean cult)
  • Masud Sa'd Salman, Persian poet (approximate date)
  • Muireadhach Ua Flaithbheartaigh, king of Iar Connacht
  • Robert of Bounalbergo, Norman nobleman and crusader
  • Zhou Bangyan, Chinese bureaucrat and ci poet (b. 1056)
  • Zhou Tong, Chinese archery teacher and martial artist

References

  1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 128. ISBN 978-0241-29876-3.
  2. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: de l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 87.
  3. "History of the Norbertines and St. Norbert". Orange County, California: St Michael's Abbey. Archived from the original on October 6, 2013. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
  4. Sutton, Ian (1999). Architecture, from Ancient Greece to the Present. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20316-3.
  5. Santoro, Nicholas J. (2011). Mary In Our Life: Atlas of the Names and Titles of Mary, The Mother of Jesus, and Their Place in Marian Devotion. Bloomington: University. p. 195.
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