1121

This article is about the year 1121.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1090s  1100s  1110s  – 1120s –  1130s  1140s  1150s
Years:	1118 1119 1120 – 1121 – 1122 1123 1124

1121 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1121 in poetry

1121 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1121 MCXXI
Ab urbe condita	1874
Armenian calendar	570 ԹՎ ՇՀ
Assyrian calendar	5871
Bahá'í calendar	-723–-722
Bengali calendar	528
Berber calendar	2071
English Regnal year	21 Hen. 1 – 22 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1665
Burmese calendar	483
Byzantine calendar	6629–6630
Chinese calendar	庚子年十二月十一日 (3757/3817-12-11) — to — 辛丑年十一月二十日 (3758/3818-11-20)
Coptic calendar	837–838
Ethiopian calendar	1113–1114
Hebrew calendar	4881–4882
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1177–1178
- Shaka Samvat	1043–1044
- Kali Yuga	4222–4223
Holocene calendar	11121
Iranian calendar	499–500
Islamic calendar	514–515
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3454
Minguo calendar	791 before ROC 民前791年
Thai solar calendar	1664

Year 1121 (MCXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• August 12 – Battle of Didgori: King David the Builder of Georgia, with 55,600 troops, defeats the 300,000-strong Muslim coalition troops at Didgori, in eastern Georgia.
• The Concordat of Worms condemns Pierre Abélard's writings on the Holy Trinity. Later in the year, Canon Fulbert (not to be confused with Fulbert of Chartres), uncle of Heloise, has Abélard castrated.
• Reading Abbey is founded in England.
• Completion of the third and largest church at Cluny Abbey.
• A large rebellion takes place in Cordoba against the ruling Almoravids.

Deaths

• December 11 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Fatimid Caliph of Egypt (b. 1066)
• William of Champeaux, French philosopher
• Zhou Tong, archery teacher and second military arts tutor of famous Song Dynasty General Yue Fei