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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1134 1135 1136 – 1137 – 1138 1139 1140

1137 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1137 in poetry v • d • e

1137 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1137 MCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1890
Armenian calendar	586 ԹՎ ՇՁԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-707 – -706
Bengali calendar	544
Berber calendar	2087
Buddhist calendar	1681
Burmese calendar	499
Byzantine calendar	6645 – 6646
Chinese calendar	丙辰年十二月初八日 (3773/3833-12-8) — to — 丁巳年十一月十七日 (3774/3834-11-17)
Coptic calendar	853 – 854
Ethiopian calendar	1129 – 1130
Hebrew calendar	4897 – 4898
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1192 – 1193
- Shaka Samvat	1059 – 1060
- Kali Yuga	4238 – 4239
Holocene calendar	11137
Iranian calendar	515 – 516
Islamic calendar	531 – 532
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3470
Thai solar calendar	1680
v • d • e

[edit] Events

• Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X.
• Rochester Cathedral is severely damaged by a fire, but is soon rebuilt.
• In Song Dynasty China, a fire breaks out in the new capital of Hangzhou; the government suspends the requirement of rent payments, alms of 108,840 kg (120 tons) of rice are distributed to the poor, and items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting are exempt from government taxation.
• The Ethiopian Empire is established under the Zagwe dynasty.

[edit] Births

• Amalric I of Jerusalem
• Walter Map, Welsh historian (d. 1209)

[edit] Deaths

• March 8—Adela of Normandy, by marriage countess of Blois (b. c. 1067)
• April 9—William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
• August 1—King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
• September 18—Eric II of Denmark
• April 19 – Michael Shin (a.d. early Korean dynasty)
• December—Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1075)
• Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine soldier (b. 1062)
• Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz
• Ramanuja, Indian philosopher (b. 1017)
• Pons of Tripoli, Count of Tripoli
• Antipope Gregory VIII
• Gruffydd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd
• Sergius VII, Duke of Naples