1108
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This article is about the year 1108.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1070s 1080s 1090s – 1100s – 1110s 1120s 1130s |
| Years: | 1105 1106 1107 – 1108 – 1109 1110 1111 |
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| 1108 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1108 MCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1861 |
| Armenian calendar | 557 ԹՎ ՇԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5858 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -736–-735 |
| Bengali calendar | 515 |
| Berber calendar | 2058 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Hen. 1 – 9 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1652 |
| Burmese calendar | 470 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6616–6617 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十一月十七日 (3744/3804-11-17) — to —
戊子年十一月廿七日(3745/3805-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 824–825 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1100–1101 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4868–4869 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1164–1165 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1030–1031 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4209–4210 |
| Holocene calendar | 11108 |
| Iranian calendar | 486–487 |
| Islamic calendar | 501–502 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3441 |
| Minguo calendar | 804 before ROC 民前804年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1651 |
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Year 1108 (MCVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
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[edit] Asia
- The Taira and Minamoto clans join forces to rule Japan after defeating the warrior monks of the Enryakuji Temple near Kyoto.
- Alexius I Comnenus and Bohemund I of Antioch negotiate the Treaty of Devol.
[edit] Europe
- May – Battle of Uclés: The Almoravids decisively defeat the Kingdom of Castile and roll back the advances of Reconquista; several towns recently captured by Christians are lost to the conquering Berbers such as Tarragona.[1]
- Saint Magnus becomes the first Earl of Orkney.
- In Pistoia, Italy, the Cathedral of San Zeno burns to the ground.
- Louis VI of France starts to rule.
- First mention of the consuls of Bergamo indicating that the city has become an independent republic.[2]
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[edit] Religion
- Chichester Cathedral is consecrated.
[edit] Births
- Bohemund II of Antioch (d. 1131)
- Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (d. 1171)
- Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1141)
[edit] Deaths
- July 29 – King Philip I of France (b. 1052)
- Saint Alberic
[edit] References
- ^ McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History 7 (1): 67–82. http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.library.uu.nl/science/article/pii/0304418181900361.
- ^ Kleinhenz, Christopher (2004). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia, Volume 1. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415939305. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1piMMqjAf1MC&vq=1102&dq=1101+sicile&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
