1119

Events

Asia

  • June 28 Battle of Ager Sanguinis: Ilghazi, the ruler of Aleppo, wipes out a Crusader army from the Principality of Antioch.
  • August 14 Battle of Hab: Baldwin II of Jerusalem's Crusaders defeat Ilghazi's army, saving Antioch.

Europe

Religion

Technology

  • In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese writer Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.
  • Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.

Births

  • July 7 Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
  • Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1176)

Deaths

  • January 24 Pope Gelasius II
  • July 17 Baldwin VII of Flanders
  • Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
  • Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch
  • Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick

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