1131

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Events

Births

Deaths

Events

★ May 9 — Tintern Abbey is founded.

★ Ramon Berenguer IV becomes Count of Barcelona.

★ Alberich becomes Archdeacon of Reims.

★ Fulk of Anjou and Melisende become King and Queen of Jerusalem.

★ Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in China (completed in 1162).

Births

★ King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)

Deaths

★ March 1 — King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)

★ April 30 — Saint Adjutor

★ August 21 — King Baldwin II of Jerusalem

★ December 4 — Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)

★ Alger of Liège, French monk at Cluny (b. 1055)

★ Bohemund II of Antioch (b. 1108)

★ Gaston IV of Béarn

★ Joscelin I, Count of Edessa

★ Peter the Hermit, French priest and crusader

★ Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (b. 1082)