1106

1106 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1106; MCVI
Ab urbe condita	1859
Armenian calendar	555; ԹՎ ՇԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5856
Balinese saka calendar	1027–1028
Bengali calendar	513
Berber calendar	2056
English Regnal year	6 Hen. 1 – 7 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1650
Burmese calendar	468
Byzantine calendar	6614–6615
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster); 3803 or 3596; — to —; 丙戌年 (Fire Dog); 3804 or 3597
Coptic calendar	822–823
Discordian calendar	2272
Ethiopian calendar	1098–1099
Hebrew calendar	4866–4867
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1162–1163
- Shaka Samvat	1027–1028
- Kali Yuga	4206–4207
Holocene calendar	11106
Igbo calendar	106–107
Iranian calendar	484–485
Islamic calendar	499–500
Japanese calendar	Chōji 3 / Kajō 1; (嘉承元年)
Javanese calendar	1011–1012
Julian calendar	1106; MCVI
Korean calendar	3439
Minguo calendar	806 before ROC ; 民前806年
Nanakshahi calendar	−362
Seleucid era	1417/1418 AG
Thai solar calendar	1648–1649
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年; (female Wood-Rooster); 1232 or 851 or 79; — to —; 阳火狗年; (male Fire-Dog); 1233 or 852 or 80

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century ; 12th century ; 13th century ;
Decades:	1080s ; 1090s ; 1100s ; 1110s ; 1120s ;
Years:	1103 ; 1104 ; 1105 ; 1106 ; 1107 ; 1108 ; 1109 ;

Last updated January 04, 2025

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Year 1106 ( MCVI ) was a common year starting on Monday the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

Spring – Bohemond I, prince of Antioch, marries Constance of France (daughter of King Philip I) in the cathedral of Chartres. Philip agrees to marry his second daughter, the 9-year-old Cecile of France, to Tancred (nephew of Bohemond). Meanwhile, Bohemond mobilises an expeditionary force (some 30,000 men) to begin a campaign against Emperor Alexios I.^[1]
August 7 – Emperor Henry IV escapes his captors at Ingelheim. He enters into negotiations at Cologne with English, French and Danish noblemen, and begins to collect an army to oppose his son Henry V but dies at Liège after a 49-year reign. Henry leads a successful expedition against Count Robert II of Flanders and is forced to swear his allegiance to him.
September 28 – Battle of Tinchebray: King Henry I defeats and imprisons his older brother Robert II, duke of Normandy, in Devizes Castle. Edgar Atheling (uncle of Henry's wife) and the 3-year-old William Clito, son of Robert, are also taken prisoner. Henry places his nephew William in the custody of Helias of Saint-Saens, count of Arques.^[2]
Autumn – Bohemond I returns to Apulia (Southern Italy) with an expeditionary force to prepare an offensive against the Byzantines. He is accompanied by his newlywed wife Constance (who is pregnant by him) and followers.
Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin dies after a 45-year reign. He is succeeded by his 22-year-old son Ali ibn Yusuf as ruler of the Almoravid Empire. Ali appoints his brother Tamin ibn Yusuf as governor of Al-Andalus (modern Spain).
Bolesław III, duke of Poland, begins a civil war against his half-brother Zbigniew, for control over Lesser Poland and Silesia.
The city of Balaguer (located in Catalonia) is conquered from the Moors by Ermengol VI, count of Urgell.

Britain

Roger le Poer, bishop of Salisbury, is granted land in south Wales by Henry I. He starts the construction of Kidwelly Castle on the banks of the river Gwendraeth.
Magnus Erlendsson becomes Earl of Orkney (until 1115).^[3]

By topic

Astronomy

February 2 – A comet (the Great Comet of 1106) is seen and reported by several civilisations around the world. Lasting for 40 days, the comet grows steadily in brightness until finally fading away.^[4]

Births

Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine co-emperor (d. 1142)
Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1198)
David FitzGerald, bishop of St. Davids (d. 1176)
Fujiwara no Michinori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1160)
Hugh II, French nobleman (d. 1134)
Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford (d. 1141)
Ibn Asakir, Syrian scholar and historian (d. 1175)
Chŏng Chung-bu, Korean military leader (d. 1179)
Magnus I, king of Sweden (d. 1134)
Matilda of Anjou, duchess of Normandy (d. 1154)
Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese military leader (d. 1180)
Xing, Chinese empress (d. 1139)

Deaths

February 3 – Khalaf ibn Mula'ib, Uqaylid emir
April 16 – Arnold I, Lotharingian nobleman
May 1 – Conon, Lotharingian nobleman
May 19 – Geoffrey IV, French nobleman
June 16 – Benno, bishop of Meissen (b. 1010)
June 24 – Yan Vyshatich, Kievan nobleman
August 7 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
August 23 – Magnus, German nobleman (b. 1045)
September 13 – Peter, French nobleman
September 17 – Manasses II, archbishop of Reims
October 7 – Hugh of Die, French bishop (b. 1040)
Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, Syrian jurist and philologist
Domnall Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht
Gonzalo Núñez de Lara, Castilian nobleman
Hugh of Fauquembergues, prince of Galilee (or 1105)
Jikirmish, Seljuk ruler
John of Lodi, Italian hermit and bishop (b. 1025)
Li Gonglin, Chinese painter and antiquarian (b. 1049)
Lothair Udo III, margrave of the Nordmark (b. 1070)
Máel Muire mac Céilechair, Irish cleric and writer
Minamoto no Yoshiie, Japanese samurai (b. 1039)
Nathan ben Jehiel, Italian Jewish lexicographer
Richard II, prince of Capua (or 1105)
Yusuf ibn Tashfin, sultan of Morocco (b. 1009)

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References

↑ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 39. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
↑ C. Warren Hollister (2003). Henry I, p. 206. (Yale University Press, New Haven & London)
↑ Muir, Tom (2005). Orkney in the Sagas: The Story of the Earldom of Orkney as told in the Icelandic Sagas. Kirkwall: The Orcadian. p. 63. ISBN 0954886232.
↑ Cometography.com ^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}

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[1] Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 39. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.

[2] C. Warren Hollister (2003). Henry I, p. 206. (Yale University Press, New Haven & London)

[3] Muir, Tom (2005). Orkney in the Sagas: The Story of the Earldom of Orkney as told in the Icelandic Sagas. Kirkwall: The Orcadian. p. 63. ISBN 0954886232.

[4] Cometography.com ^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}

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Gregorian calendar	1106 MCVI
Ab urbe condita	1859
Armenian calendar	555 ԹՎ ՇԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5856
Balinese saka calendar	1027–1028
Bengali calendar	513
Berber calendar	2056
English Regnal year	6 Hen. 1 – 7 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1650
Burmese calendar	468
Byzantine calendar	6614–6615
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 3803 or 3596 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3804 or 3597
Coptic calendar	822–823
Discordian calendar	2272
Ethiopian calendar	1098–1099
Hebrew calendar	4866–4867
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1162–1163
- Shaka Samvat	1027–1028
- Kali Yuga	4206–4207
Holocene calendar	11106
Igbo calendar	106–107
Iranian calendar	484–485
Islamic calendar	499–500
Japanese calendar	Chōji 3 / Kajō 1 (嘉承元年)
Javanese calendar	1011–1012
Julian calendar	1106 MCVI
Korean calendar	3439
Minguo calendar	806 before ROC 民前806年
Nanakshahi calendar	−362
Seleucid era	1417/1418 AG
Thai solar calendar	1648–1649
Tibetan calendar	阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 1232 or 851 or 79 — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 1233 or 852 or 80

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