1110s

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1080s 1090s 1100s – 1110s – 1120s 1130s 1140s
Years:	1110 1111 1112 1113 1114 1115 1116 1117 1118 1119
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

1110s: events by year

Contents: 1110 1111 1112 1113 1114 1115 1116 1117 1118 1119

1110

• December 4 – First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.
• Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor invades Italy.
• Inge the Younger becomes joint king of Sweden with his brother Philip.
• The Russian Primary Chronicle ends.
• Construction begins on Fontevraud Abbey in France.
• Beirut and Sidon are captured by the Crusaders.
• Mawdud of Mosul captures all land belonging to the Crusader County of Edessa east of the Euphrates.
• Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus renews his war with the Seljuk Turks.

By place

Europe

• The count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer III, obtains the county of Provence due to his marriage with the heiress, Douce.
• The people of Laon, France, proclaim a commune and murder their bishop.
• Salzwedel, Germany is founded.
• The German state of Baden is founded.
• Afonso I becomes Count of Portugal.
• Otto of Ballenstedt is made Duke of Saxony by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Anonymus Gallus begins to write Gesta principium Polonorum to Boleslaw III.

1113

• Pierre Abélard opens his school in Paris.
• Alaungsithu succeeds Kyanzittha as king of Burma.
• Suryavarman I's reign begins in the Khmer Empire.
• Bridlington Priory is founded.
• The Order of the Knights of the Hospital of Saint John, founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land, vows to fight in its defense.
• A riot erupts in Kiev.
• The Republic of Florence conquers the neighboring city of Montecascioli as part of its effort to extend its domination over the contado.
• Unsuccessful attempt of Queen Urraca to seize Burgos defended by her ex-husband King Alfonso.

By place

Asia

• The Song Dynasty emperor Huizong sends a gift of Chinese musical instruments for use in royal banquets to the Goryeo court of Korea, by request from the Goryeo king Yejong.

Europe

• January 7 – Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, marries Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and his Pisan allies, conquers Ibiza and Mallorca.
• The Almoravid governor of Zaragoza, Muhàmmad ibn al-Hajj, launches an offensive against the County of Barcelona but is defeated at the Battle of Martorell by Ramon Berenguer III.
• As part of the Norman expansion southward, the count Routrou II of Perche enters the service of the king of Castille, Alfonso the Battler.
• The Polovtsy attack the Byzantine Empire.

1115

• Clairvaux Abbey is founded by St. Bernard.
• Anselm of Laon becomes archdeacon of Laon.
• Hugh of St. Victor joins the Victorines in Paris.
• Pierre Abélard becomes canon of Notre Dame de Paris.
• Stephen of England becomes count of Mortain.
• Battle of Welfesholz: Lothair I of Supplinburg defeats Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.
• Arnulf of Chocques is accused of sexual relations with a Muslim woman, and is briefly removed from his position as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
• The Jurchen establish the Jin Dynasty of China.
• The Crusader castle of Montreal is built by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
• Roger of Salerno's Crusaders rout the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Sarmin in Syria.
• The Mixtec lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw is defeated in battle and sacrificed by a coalition of city-states led by his brother-in-law 4 Wind.

By area

Africa

• Baldwin I of Jerusalem undertakes an invasion of Egypt.
• The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, conquers the independent island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.

Americas

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

Europe

• 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.
• The Almoravid troops conquer the Balearic islands whose Muslim king had been severely weakened by Pisan and Catalan raiders.

By topic

Arts and technology

• 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.

1117

Africa

• Conflict between the de facto independent republics of Mahdia and Gabes in Ifriqiya. Madhia is supported by the Zirid dynasty while Gabes receives the aid of the Roger I of Sicily.

Asia

• Pelusium is razed by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
• Miidera and the sohei of Enryakuji attack Nara, Japan.

Europe

• Borivoj II of Bohemia becomes prince in place of Vladislav I of Bohemia.
• The people of Santiago de Compostela (present-day Spain) try to burn their prelate in his palace, along with the queen.
• Iceland ends slavery.
• Short-lived Almoravid reconquest of Coimbra (Portugal).

By topic

Education

• May 3 – Merton Priory (Thomas Becket School) is consecrated.

Technology

• The earliest use of a compass for navigational purposes is recorded.

By place

Europe

British isles

• Enna mac Donnchada mac Murchada becomes King of Dublin.
• Cu Faifne mac Congalaig becomes King of Ui Failghe.
• Maelsechlainn Ua Faelain becomes King of the Déisi Muman.
• The cantrefs of Rhos and Rhufoniog are annexed by Gruffydd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd.
• The Archbishop of York is no longer required to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Reconstruction begins on Peterborough Cathedral, destroyed by fire in 1116.

Byzantine Empire

• John II Comnenus succeeds Alexius I as Byzantine emperor.

Eastern Europe

• Đorđe, Vojislavljević ruler of Serbia, is overthrown by Uroš I of Raška.
• George of Duklja is overthrown by his cousin Grubeša.
• Radostl becomes Bishop of Krakow.
• Zbraslav, now part of Prague, is founded.
• Sylvestr becomes bishop of Pereyaslavl Yuzhniy.

France

• A rebellion against Henry I of England breaks out in Normandy.
• Alberich of Rheims becomes Master at the school of Rheims.
• Charles I, Count of Flanders marries Margaret of Clermont.
• Amaury IV of Montfort divorces his wife Richilde, daughter of Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut.
• Wulgrin III becomes Count of Angoulême.
• Gervais becomes Count of Rethel.
• Montlhéry Castle is dismantled by Louis VI of France.

Germany

• Magdeburg is almost destroyed by fire.
• Reichenbach Abbey is founded.
• Zwickau, Eisenstadt, Kirchgandern, and Wolfenbüttel are first mentioned.
• Otto of Bamberg is suspended by the Pope, and Norbert of Xanten defends himself against charges of heresy at the Synod of Fritzlar.

Italy

• January 24 – Pope Gelasius II succeeds Pope Paschal II as the 161st pope.
• March 10 – Gregory VIII is elected antipope.
• The cathedral of Ferentino is completed.
• The restoration of Santa Maria in Cosmedin begins.
• The economic competition between Milan and Como drives the two cities to war.

Scandinavia

• Upon the death of his brother Philip, Inge the Younger becomes sole king of Sweden.
• Þorlákur Runólfsson becomes Bishop of Skálholt.

Spain

• The Almoravids loose their control of the Ebro valley:
  • Pope Pelagius II grants the status of Crusade to the Christian effort in the Ebro valley attracting numerous Gascon, Occitan and Norman knights.
  • December 18 – Alfonso the Battler expels the Moors from Zaragoza.
  • The troops of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona led by archbishop Oleguer Bonestruga capture Tarragona from the Moors.

Asia

East Asia

• The Genei era begins in Japan.
• The Zenghe era of Emperor Huizong of Song China ends, and the Chonghe era begins.
• The Yongning era of Emperor Chongzong of Western Xia ends.

Caucasus

• David IV of Georgia captures Lori from the Seljuk Turks.
• David IV of Georgia settles a number of Kipchaks in Georgia.

Western Asia

• June 11 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
• The Byzantine general Philocales captures Sardis from the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm.
• Baldwin I of Jerusalem invades Egypt.
• Baldwin of Le Bourg succeeds his cousin Baldwin I as king of Jerusalem.
• Roman of Le Puy becomes lord of Oultrejordain.
• Joscelin I succeeds Baldwin of Le Bourg as Count of Edessa.
• Garmond of Picquigny becomes Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
• Suleyman I ibn al-Ghazi becomes emir of Aleppo.
• Ahmed Sanjar and Mahmud II proclaim themselves rival Seljuk sultans upon the death of Mehmed I of Great Seljuk.
• Al-Mustarshid becomes Abbasid caliph.
• Bahram Shah becomes Ghaznavid Emperor.

South Asia

• June 29 – Vikram Chola becomes regent of the Chola kingdom.
• Battle of Kennagal: The Hoysala Empire defeats the Chalukya.

By area

Asia

• June 28 – Battle of Ager Sanguinis: Ilghazi, the ruler of Aleppo, wipes out a Crusader army from the Principality of Antioch.
• August 14 – Battle of Hab: Baldwin II of Jerusalem's Crusaders defeat Ilghazi's army, saving Antioch.

Europe

• August 20 – Battle of Bremule: Henry I of England routs Louis VI.
• September 19 – Severe Earthquake in Gloucestershire & Warwickshire, England.
• Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg (Middlesbrough) to Whitby.

By topic

Religion

• February 2 – Pope Callixtus II succeeds Pope Gelasius II as the 162nd pope.
• Knights Templar Founded by Hugh de Payns.
• Councils of Toulouse and Reims.
  • The archbishop of Tarragona, Oleguer Bonestruga, very successfully preaches the Crusade in against the Moors in Catalonia.
  • In Toulouse, condemnation by the Church of the Petrobrusian heresy.

Technology

• In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese author Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.
• Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.