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This article is about the year 1116.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1080s 1090s 1100s – 1110s – 1120s 1130s 1140s |
| Years: | 1113 1114 1115 – 1116 – 1117 1118 1119 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1116 MCXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1869 |
| Armenian calendar | 565 ԹՎ ՇԿԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5866 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -728–-727 |
| Bengali calendar | 523 |
| Berber calendar | 2066 |
| English Regnal year | 16 Hen. 1 – 17 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1660 |
| Burmese calendar | 478 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6624–6625 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年十二月十五日 (3752/3812-12-15) — to —
丙申年十一月廿六日(3753/3813-11-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 832–833 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1108–1109 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4876–4877 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1172–1173 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1038–1039 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4217–4218 |
| Holocene calendar | 11116 |
| Iranian calendar | 494–495 |
| Islamic calendar | 509–510 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3449 |
| Minguo calendar | 796 before ROC 民前796年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1659 |
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Year 1116 (MCXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] By area
[edit] 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.[1]
[edit] Americas
- The Aztecs leave Aztlán, searching for the site of what will eventually become Tenochtitlán (later Mexico City).
[edit] 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.[2]
[edit] By topic
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- February 3 – Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
- February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, an itinerant preacher, and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault (b. c. 1045)
[edit] References
- ^ Bresc, Henri (2003). La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age. http://www.storiamediterranea.it/public/md1_dir/b1462.pdf. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.83.
