[edit] Events

• Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.
• Saint Malachy becomes Archbishop of Armagh.
• Aed mac Domnaill becomes King of Ui Failghe.
• The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.
• The Augustinian Runcorn Priory is transferred to Norton Priory.
• Buckfastleigh Abbey is refounded.
• Aelred of Hexham enters the monastery at Rievaulx Abbey.
• St. Stephen Harding becomes abbott of Citeaux Abbey.
• Much of Chartres, France is destroyed by fire.
• Henry of Lausanne is sentenced to imprisonment by Pope Innocent II.
• Saint Hugh of Grenoble is canonized by Innocent II.
• Ermengarde becomes viscountess of Narbonne.
• Narbonne is seized by Alphonse I of Toulouse.
• The University of Salamanca is founded in Castile.
• Battle of Fraga: Alfonso I of Aragon is killed, and succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.
• The Zeeland archipelago is created by a massive storm in the North Sea.
• Battle of Färlev: Magnus IV of Norway defeats Harald IV of Norway.
• Harald Kesja and Magnus the Strong are defeated at the Battle of Fotevik.
• Eric II becomes King of Denmark.
• The Cathedral of St. Petri in Schleswig is completed.
• The House of Brandenburg is founded when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.
• The Abbey of St. Jacob is founded in Würzburg.
• Hermann III of Baden marries Bertha of Lorraine.
• Evermode of Ratzeburg becomes Abbot of Gottesgnaden.
• Ulrich I becomes Duke of Carinthia.
• The Humiliati retreat to a monastery in Milan.
• Roger II of Sicily defeats a revolt in Naples.
• Vsevolod Mstislavich of Novgorod defeats the Chuds and captures Tartu.
• Yuri Dolgoruki founds the town of Skniatino.
• Iziaslav II of Kiev becomes Prince of Vladimir and Volyn.
• Viacheslav of Kiev becomes Prince of Turov.
• Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia travel throughout France, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States.
• Leo Styppes becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Hugh II of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa, revolts against King Fulk of Jerusalem.
• Mas'ud becomes sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
• Abdul Qadir Jilani becomes principal of the Hanbali school in Baghdad.
• The Kangguo Era begins in the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
• The Japanese classic text Uchigikishu is written.
• Wu Ge, the Chinese Song Dynasty Deputy Transport Commissioner of Zhejiang, has paddle wheel warships constructed with a total of nine wheels and others with thirteen wheels.

[edit] Births

• King Sancho III of Castile (d. 1158)
• King Sverker I of Sweden (approximate date; d. 1156)
• Raymond V of Toulouse (d. 1194)
• Geoffrey, Count of Nantes
• Lord Basava, founder of the Lingayat sect

[edit] Deaths

• February 10 — Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
• March 28 — Saint Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order
• June 4 — Magnus the Strong, Swedish usurper
• June 6 — Saint Norbert, founder of the Norbertine order of canons
• June 25 — King Niels of Denmark
• August 13 — Piroska of Hungary, wife of John II Comnenus
• September — Alfonso I of Aragon
• Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (b. 1100)
• Hugh II of Le Puiset, crusader knight and Count of Jaffa (b. 1100)
• Tughrul II of Great Seljuk
• Emperor Taizong of Jin
• Patriarch John IX of Constantinople
• Engelbert of Carinthia
• Minamoto Motoko, consort of Emperor Go-Sanjo
• Gumushtugin, emir of the Danishmends
• Aed mac mac Tadhg Ua Cellaig, King of Hy-Many
• Bishop Ulfketil of Aarhus
• Reginald Mansoir, Constable of the Principality of Antioch
• Donnchad mac Con Faifne, King of Ui Failghe