1127

1127 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1127
MCXXVII
Ab urbe condita1880
Armenian calendar576
ԹՎ ՇՀԶ
Assyrian calendar5877
Balinese saka calendar1048–1049
Bengali calendar533–534
Berber calendar2077
English Regnal year27 Hen. 1 – 28 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar1671
Burmese calendar489
Byzantine calendar6635–6636
Chinese calendar丙午年 (Fire Horse)
3824 or 3617
    — to —
丁未年 (Fire Goat)
3825 or 3618
Coptic calendar843–844
Discordian calendar2293
Ethiopian calendar1119–1120
Hebrew calendar4887–4888
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1183–1184
 - Shaka Samvat1048–1049
 - Kali Yuga4227–4228
Holocene calendar11127
Igbo calendar127–128
Iranian calendar505–506
Islamic calendar520–521
Japanese calendarDaiji 2
(大治2年)
Javanese calendar1032–1033
Julian calendar1127
MCXXVII
Korean calendar3460
Minguo calendar785 before ROC
民前785年
Nanakshahi calendar−341
Seleucid era1438/1439 AG
Thai solar calendar1669–1670
Tibetan calendarམེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Fire-Horse)
1253 or 872 or 100
    — to —
མེ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Fire-Sheep)
1254 or 873 or 101
Emperor Gaozong of Song (1107–1187) rules from 1127

Year 1127 (MCXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • March 2 – Charles the Good, count of Flanders, is murdered by a band of knights while praying in church; he leaves no children. King Louis VI of France appoints William Clito (son of Robert Curthose) as new ruler. But the Flemish towns of Bruges, Ghent, Saint-Omer and Ypres recognize (with English financial support) Thierry of Alsace as rival count.
  • Spring – The forces of Alfonso VII of León and Castile begin the Siege of Guimarães, which will end in their withdrawal.[1]
  • Summer – King Roger II of Sicily claims the Hauteville possessions in Italy as well the overlordship of Capua. However, a coalition of Norman noblemen in Apulia and Calabria resist (supported by Pope Honorius II) against Sicilian rule. The same year, Roger regains control over Malta after a rebellion.[2] Roger II also establishes a pact with the maritime Republic of Savona to guarantee the security of the Mediterranean Sea,[3] probably following an Almoravid raid against the Sicilian realm.[4]
  • December 18 – Conrad III (with support of the imperial cities, Swabia and Austria) is elected and crowned as anti-king of Germany at Nuremberg.

England

  • King Henry I of England arranges the marriage of his daughter Matilda (the widow of Emperor Henry V) to the 14-year-old Geoffrey of Anjou (son of Count Fulk V). This is done to ensure an alliance between England and Anjou, and to prevent Fulk allying with Louis VI. Henry has the English nobles swear allegiance to Matilda as the rightful heir to the throne. Upon his death, her cousin Stephen of Blois crosses the channel and usurps her throne, becoming the King of England. She wages a lengthy civil war known as the Anarchy, which lasts from 1135–1154.

Levant

  • Imad ad-Din Zengi, a Turkish military leader, becomes governor (atabeg) of Mosul. He seizes the cities of Nisibin, Sinjar and Harran in the Jazira Region (Northern Mesopotamia).

Asia

  • January 9 – Jin–Song Wars: Jurchen forces sack the Chinese capital of Kaifeng of the Northern Song dynasty during the Jingkang incident. They capture Emperor Qinzong, along with his father, Huizong, and members of the House of Zhao.[5]
  • June 12 – Qinzong's younger brother, the 20-year-old Gaozong, re-establishes the Song dynasty (as the Southern Song dynasty) in Lin'an (modern-day Hangzhou) and is proclaimed emperor.

By topic

Religion

  • The Kalyan minaret (as part of the Po-i-Kalyan mosque complex) is completed in Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan).

Births

Deaths

  • February 7 – Ava (von Göttweig), German poet (b. 1060)
  • February 10 – William IX ("the Troubador"), duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
  • March 2 – Charles the Good, count of Flanders (b. 1084)
  • March 23 – Ottone Frangipane, Italian Benedictine monk and saint (b. 1040)
  • May 16 – Gens du Beaucet, French hermit and saint (b. 1104)
  • July – William II, Norman duke of Apulia and Calabria (b. 1095)
  • August 12 – Jordan of Ariano, Norman warrior and nobleman
  • September 1 – Prince Álmos (or Almus), duke of Hungary and Croatia
  • October 1 – Morphia of Melitene, queen consort of Jerusalem (or 1126)
  • November 1 – Zhang Bangchang, ruler of Da Chu (b. 1081)
  • November 12 – Godbald (or Godebald), bishop of Utrecht
  • November 25 – Minamoto no Yoshimitsu, Japanese samurai (b. 1045)
  • December 19 – Jordan II (or Giordano), prince of Capua
  • Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress consort (b. 1036)
  • Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin, Irish historian and abbot[6]
  • Gualfardo of Verona, Italian trader and hermit (b. 1070)
  • William III ("the Child"), count of Burgundy (b. 1110)
  • Zhu, Chinese empress of the Song dynasty (b. 1102)

References

  1. ^ H. V. Livermore: A History Of Portugal, Cambridge University Press, 1947, p. 59.
  2. ^ Abulafia, David (1985). The Norman kingdom of Africa and the Norman expeditions to Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-416-6.
  3. ^ Bresc, Henri. "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" (PDF). Mediterranea - ricerche storiche. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Retrieved January 17, 2012.
  4. ^ Johns, Jeremy (2002). Arabic administration in Norman Sicily: the royal dīwān. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81692-0.
  5. ^ Lorge, Peter (2005). War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900–1795, pp. 53–54. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-96929-8.
  6. ^ Annals of the Four Masters. Ireland: Corpus of Electronic Texts (UCC), Annal M1127.1. 1127.