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Events

Births

Deaths

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 is destroyed by fire.

★ Henry of Lausanne is sentenced to imprisonment by Pope Innocent II.

★ 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.

★ Alfonso I of Aragon dies at the Battle of Fraga, and is succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.

★ The Zeeland archipelago is created by a massive storm in the North Sea.

★ Magnus IV of Norway defeats Harald IV of Norway at the battle at Färlev.

★ 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 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 Fulk, King 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.

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

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