1143

Year 1143 (MCXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1143 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1143
MCXLIII
Ab urbe condita1896
Armenian calendar592
ԹՎ ՇՂԲ
Assyrian calendar5893
Balinese saka calendar1064–1065
Bengali calendar550
Berber calendar2093
English Regnal year8 Ste. 1  9 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar1687
Burmese calendar505
Byzantine calendar6651–6652
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3839 or 3779
     to 
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3840 or 3780
Coptic calendar859–860
Discordian calendar2309
Ethiopian calendar1135–1136
Hebrew calendar4903–4904
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1199–1200
 - Shaka Samvat1064–1065
 - Kali Yuga4243–4244
Holocene calendar11143
Igbo calendar143–144
Iranian calendar521–522
Islamic calendar537–538
Japanese calendarKōji 2
(康治2年)
Javanese calendar1049–1050
Julian calendar1143
MCXLIII
Korean calendar3476
Minguo calendar769 before ROC
民前769年
Nanakshahi calendar−325
Seleucid era1454/1455 AG
Thai solar calendar1685–1686
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1269 or 888 or 116
     to 
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1270 or 889 or 117
King Fulk of Jerusalem (r. 1131–1143)

Events

Byzantine Empire

  • April 8 Emperor John II (Komnenos) dies of a poisoned arrow wound while hunting wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Manuel I, who is chosen as his successor, in preference to his elder surviving brother Isaac. Manuel dispatches John Axouchos, his commander-in-chief (megas domestikos), to Constantinople ahead of him – with orders to arrest Isaac in the Great Palace.[1]

Levant

  • November 13 King Fulk of Jerusalem dies after a hunting accident in Acre. He is succeeded by his 13-year-old son Baldwin III – who is crowned as co-ruler alongside his mother, Queen Melisende on Christmas Day. Due to the political situation the Crusader States of Tripoli, Antioch and Edessa assert their independence. Raymond of Antioch demands the return of Cilicia to his principality and invades the province.[2]

Europe

  • Spring King Conrad III gives Bavaria to his half-brother Henry II (Jasomirgott). His wife, Gertrude (daughter of the late Emperor Lothair III) dies in childbirth at Klosterneuburg Monastery in Lower Austria on April 18.
  • October 5 Treaty of Zamora: The Kingdom of Portugal is recognized by King Alfonso VII (the Emperor) of León and Castile in the presence of his cousin, King Afonso I of Portugal and papal representatives.
  • Adolf II, count of Schauenburg and Holstein, founds Lübeck – which later becomes one of the leading Hanseatic cities. He divides the conquered Slavic lands, as part of the eastward expansion in Germany.
  • Geoffrey V (the Fair) becomes duke of Normandy, upon news of the death of his father Fulk. He secures all of Normandy west and south of the Seine River.

England

  • July 1 Battle of Wilton: Earl Robert of Gloucester (illegitimate son of the late King Henry I) defeats the English forces of King Stephen during a surprise attack at Wilton Abbey. In the darkness, Stephen escapes, while his steward William Martel fights a rearguard action to delay the pursuers.
  • Autumn Stephen arrests Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, during a meeting of the Royal Court at St. Albans. He is charged with treason against Stephen, but given his freedom back in return for surrendering his title and castles. Geoffrey becomes an outlaw and fortifies Ramsey Abbey, where he sets up his headquarters to plunder the countryside of Ely.

Africa

  • Norman raiders capture Jijel (modern Algeria).[3] A Norman raid on Ceuta fails,[4] but at the same time the Normans lead a successful assault against Sfax.[5]

Religion

Literature

  • Robert of Ketton makes the first European translation of the Qur'an for Peter the Venerable, Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete, into Latin.

Births

  • July 31 Nijō, emperor of Japan (d. 1165)
  • Balian of Ibelin, French nobleman (d. 1193)
  • Beatrice I, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1184)
  • Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (d. 1166)
  • Jigten Sumgön, founder of the Drikung Kagyu (d. 1217)
  • Konoe Motozane, Japanese nobleman (d. 1166)
  • Mu'in al-Din Chishti, Persian preacher (d. 1236)
  • Philip I (or Alsace), count of Flanders (d. 1191)

Deaths

References

  1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 188–189. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 71.
  4. Picard C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
  5. Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" [Sicily and the Libyan space in the Middle Ages] (PDF). Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (in French). 63 (2): 187–208. JSTOR 25734500. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022.
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