1116

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1080s 1090s 1100s – 1110s – 1120s 1130s 1140s
Years:	1113 1114 1115 – 1116 – 1117 1118 1119

Year 1116 (MCXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins an invasion of Egypt.
The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, takes over the independent island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.[1]

The Aztecs leave Aztlán, searching for the site of what will eventually become Tenochtitlán (later Mexico City).

The Portuguese, under the leadership of countess Theresa take two Galician cities, Tui and Ourense. In reply, the sister of Countess Theresa, Queen Urraca of Leon and Castile, attacks Portugal.
Almoravid troops take over the Balearic islands whose Muslim king had been severely weakened by Pisan and Catalan raiders.[2]

The modern book of separate pages stitched together is invented in China.
Construction starts on the Chennakesava Temple in India.
Aak music is introduced to the Korean court by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

February 3 – Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, a preacher and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault (b. c. 1045)

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Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.83.

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