1120

Year 1120 (MCXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 11th century12th century13th century
Decades: 1090s  1100s  1110s 1120s 1130s  1140s  1150s
Years: 1117 1118 111911201121 1122 1123
Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin ("明王慎德.四夷咸宾": "When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests")

Events

Asia

  • The Song Dynasty governor of the seaport of Quanzhou, Fujian, China, reports the population of his city has reached 500,000.
  • AugustSeptember (the eighth month of the Chinese calendar) Wanyan Xiyin completes the design of the first version of the Jurchen script

Europe

  • January 16 The Council of Nablus is held in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  • June 17 at the Battle of Cutanda, the Aragonese troops of Alfonso I defeat the Almoravid army.[1]
  • November 25 The White Ship is wrecked in the English Channel, resulting in the death of the son of King Henry I of England.
  • Walcher of Malvern creates a system of measurement for the earth using degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.
  • Construction begins on Llandaff Cathedral in Wales.
  • Foundation of Freiburg in Breisgau.
  • Under admirals Abu Abd Allah ibn Maymum of Almeria and Isa ibn Mayum of Sevilla, the Almoravid fleet attacks the Christian kingdom of Galicia.[2]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.86.
  2. Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
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