1112

1112 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1112 MCXII
Ab urbe condita	1865
Armenian calendar	561 ԹՎ ՇԿԱ
Assyrian calendar	5862
Balinese saka calendar	1033–1034
Bengali calendar	518–519
Berber calendar	2062
English Regnal year	12  Hen. 1  – 13  Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1656
Burmese calendar	474
Byzantine calendar	6620–6621
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal  Rabbit) 3809 or 3602     — to — 壬辰年 (Water  Dragon) 3810 or 3603
Coptic calendar	828–829
Discordian calendar	2278
Ethiopian calendar	1104–1105
Hebrew calendar	4872–4873
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1168–1169
- Shaka Samvat	1033–1034
- Kali Yuga	4212–4213
Holocene calendar	11112
Igbo calendar	112–113
Iranian calendar	490–491
Islamic calendar	505–506
Japanese calendar	Ten'ei 3 (天永３年)
Javanese calendar	1017–1018
Julian calendar	1112 MCXII
Korean calendar	3445
Minguo calendar	800 before ROC 民前800年
Nanakshahi calendar	−356
Seleucid era	1423/1424 AG
Thai solar calendar	1654–1655
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 1238 or 857 or 85     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1239 or 858 or 86

Count Ramon Berenguer III (1082–1131)

Year 1112 ( MCXII ) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring – Malik Shah, Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum, begins incursions into Anatolia. He marches on Philadelphia with his army, but is halted by the Byzantines under Gabras, governor of the Theme of Chaldia. ^[1]

Levant

• Spring – Seljuk forces under Toghtekin, Turkic governor of Damascus, intervene at Tyre, and force King Baldwin I of Jerusalem to raise the siege.
• April 10 – The Crusaders fight their way back to Acre (modern Israel). ^[2]

Europe

• February 3 – Ramon Berenguer III ("the Great"), count of Barcelona, obtains the county of Provence through his marriage to the heiress, Douce I. Ramon's dominion stretches as far east as Nice (modern France). ^[3]
• May 22 – Henry, count of Portugal, dies from wounds received during a siege at Astorga. He is succeeded by his 3-year-old son Afonso I, but his mother Theresa desires to rule Portugal alone and becomes regent.
• Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland has his half-brother Zbigniew blinded and thrown into a dungeon in Tyniec Abbey. Archbishop Martin I excommunicates Bolesław for committing this terrible crime.
• Otto ("the Rich"), count of Ballenstedt, is appointed duke of Saxony by Emperor Henry V, but is later stripped of his title.
• Salzwedel in the Altmark (modern Germany) is founded.
• The Margraviate of Baden is founded by Herman II.

By topic

Literature

• Gallus Anonymus, Polish chronicler and historian, begins to write Gesta principum Polonorum , to Bolesław III.

Religion

• Easter – The citizens of Laon in France, having proclaimed a commune, murder Bishop Waldric in his cathedral.

Births

• García IV ("the Restorer"), king of Navarre (d. 1150)
• February 3 – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah.
• Henry II (Jasomirgott), duke of Austria (d. 1177)
• Henry IV ("the Blind"), count of Luxembourg (d. 1196)
• Mahaut of Albon, countess of Savoy (d. 1148)
• Sasaki Hideyoshi, Japanese samurai (d. 1184)
• Sibylla of Anjou, countess of Flanders (d. 1165)

Deaths

• Easter – Waldric, English Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Laon, murdered (b. 1050)
• May 13 – Ulric II (or Udalrich), Italian nobleman
• October 5 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French chronicler
• October 12 – Kogh Vasil ("the Robber"), Armenian ruler
• November 3 – Anna Vsevolodovna, Kievan princess
• Baldric of Noyon, bishop of Tournai (b. 1099)
• Bertrand of Tripoli, count of Toulouse and Tripoli
• Elimar I (or Egilmar), count of Oldenburg (b. 1040)
• Fakhr-un-Nisa, Arab scholar and calligrapher
• George II (or Giorgi), king of Georgia (b. 1054)
• Ghibbelin (or Gibelin), archbishop of Arles
• Henry (or Henri), count of Portugal (b. 1066)
• Kyansittha, king of the Pagan Empire (or 1113)
• Maud of Apulia, Norman noblewoman (b. c.1060)
• Su Zhe, Chinese politician and historian (b. 1039)
• Tancred, Italo-Norman nobleman (b. 1075)
• Vukan I, Grand Prince of Serbia (b. 1050)

See also

• List of state leaders in 1112

References

1. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 111. ISBN   978-0241-29876-3.
2. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 76. ISBN   978-0-241-29876-3.
3. Dell'Umbria, Alèssi (2006). Histoire universelle de Marseille, de l'an mil à l'an deux mille. Marseille: Agone. p. 19. ISBN   2-7489-0061-8.