1112

1112 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1112
MCXII
Ab urbe condita1865
Armenian calendar561
ԹՎ ՇԿԱ
Assyrian calendar5862
Balinese saka calendar1033–1034
Bengali calendar518–519
Berber calendar2062
English Regnal year12 Hen. 1 – 13 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar1656
Burmese calendar474
Byzantine calendar6620–6621
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
3809 or 3602
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
3810 or 3603
Coptic calendar828–829
Discordian calendar2278
Ethiopian calendar1104–1105
Hebrew calendar4872–4873
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1168–1169
 - Shaka Samvat1033–1034
 - Kali Yuga4212–4213
Holocene calendar11112
Igbo calendar112–113
Iranian calendar490–491
Islamic calendar505–506
Japanese calendarTen'ei 3
(天永3年)
Javanese calendar1017–1018
Julian calendar1112
MCXII
Korean calendar3445
Minguo calendar800 before ROC
民前800年
Nanakshahi calendar−356
Seleucid era1423/1424 AG
Thai solar calendar1654–1655
Tibetan calendarལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་
(female Iron-Hare)
1238 or 857 or 85
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Water-Dragon)
1239 or 858 or 86
Count Ramon Berenguer III (1082–1131)

Year 1112 (MCXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

  • Spring – Malik Shah, Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum, begins incursions into Anatolia. He marches on Philadelphia with his army, but is halted by the Byzantines under Gabras, governor of the Theme of Chaldia.[1]

Levant

Europe

  • February 3 – Ramon Berenguer III ("the Great"), count of Barcelona, obtains the county of Provence through his marriage to the heiress, Douce I. Ramon's dominion stretches as far east as Nice (modern France).[3]
  • May 22 – Henry, count of Portugal, dies from wounds received during a siege at Astorga. He is succeeded by his 3-year-old son Afonso I, but his mother Theresa desires to rule Portugal alone and becomes regent.
  • Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland has his half-brother Zbigniew blinded and thrown into a dungeon in Tyniec Abbey. Archbishop Martin I excommunicates Bolesław for committing this terrible crime.
  • Otto ("the Rich"), count of Ballenstedt, is appointed duke of Saxony by Emperor Henry V, but is later stripped of his title.
  • Salzwedel in the Altmark (modern Germany) is founded.
  • The Margraviate of Baden is founded by Herman II.

By topic

Literature

  • Gallus Anonymus, Polish chronicler and historian, begins to write Gesta principum Polonorum, to Bolesław III.

Religion

  • Easter – The citizens of Laon in France, having proclaimed a commune, murder Bishop Waldric in his cathedral.

Births

  • García IV ("the Restorer"), king of Navarre (d. 1150)
  • February 3 – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah.
  • Henry II (Jasomirgott), duke of Austria (d. 1177)
  • Henry IV ("the Blind"), count of Luxembourg (d. 1196)
  • Mahaut of Albon, countess of Savoy (d. 1148)
  • Sasaki Hideyoshi, Japanese samurai (d. 1184)
  • Sibylla of Anjou, countess of Flanders (d. 1165)

Deaths

  • Easter – Waldric, English Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Laon, murdered (b. 1050)
  • May 13 – Ulric II (or Udalrich), Italian nobleman
  • October 5 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
  • October 12 – Kogh Vasil ("the Robber"), Armenian ruler
  • November 3 – Anna Vsevolodovna, Kievan princess
  • Baldric of Noyon, bishop of Tournai (b. 1099)
  • Bertrand of Tripoli, count of Toulouse and Tripoli
  • Elimar I (or Egilmar), count of Oldenburg (b. 1040)
  • Fakhr-un-Nisa, Arab scholar and calligrapher
  • George II (or Giorgi), king of Georgia (b. 1054)
  • Ghibbelin (or Gibelin), archbishop of Arles
  • Henry (or Henri), count of Portugal (b. 1066)
  • Kyansittha, king of the Pagan Empire (or 1113)
  • Maud of Apulia, Norman noblewoman (b. c.1060)
  • Su Zhe, Chinese politician and historian (b. 1039)
  • Tancred, Italo-Norman nobleman (b. 1075)
  • Vukan I, Grand Prince of Serbia (b. 1050)

See also

  • List of state leaders in 1112

References

  1. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 111. ISBN 978-0241-29876-3.
  2. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 76. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. ^ Dell'Umbria, Alèssi (2006). Histoire universelle de Marseille, de l'an mil à l'an deux mille. Marseille: Agone. p. 19. ISBN 2-7489-0061-8.