1126
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 1126 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1126 MCXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1879 |
| Armenian calendar | 575 ԹՎ ՇՀԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5876 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1047–1048 |
| Bengali calendar | 533 |
| Berber calendar | 2076 |
| English Regnal year | 26 Hen. 1 – 27 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1670 |
| Burmese calendar | 488 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6634–6635 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3823 or 3616 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3824 or 3617 |
| Coptic calendar | 842–843 |
| Discordian calendar | 2292 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1118–1119 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4886–4887 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1182–1183 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1047–1048 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4226–4227 |
| Holocene calendar | 11126 |
| Igbo calendar | 126–127 |
| Iranian calendar | 504–505 |
| Islamic calendar | 519–520 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenji 3 / Daiji 1 (大治元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1031–1032 |
| Julian calendar | 1126 MCXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3459 |
| Minguo calendar | 786 before ROC 民前786年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −342 |
| Seleucid era | 1437/1438 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1668–1669 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1252 or 871 or 99 — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1253 or 872 or 100 |
Year 1126 (MCXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Asia
- January–March – In Song dynasty China, scholars and farmers demonstrate around Kaifeng for the restoration of a trusted military official, Li Gang (李綱). Small conflicts erupt between the protestors and the government.
- January 18 – Emperor Huizong of Song abdicates in favour of his son Qinzong.
- The Song dynasty loses the Yellow River valley to the Jin dynasty in the Jin–Song Wars. Remnants of the court flee south, including much of the populace and communities such as the Kaifeng Jews.
- Two previously written Chinese pharmaceutical works, one by Shen Kuo and another by Su Shi, are combined into one written work.
Europe
- March 10 – Alfonso VII is crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.
- Rutherglen becomes one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.
- Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne, is killed by upset peasants at a local thing. Sweden is without ruler, but Magnus the Strong claims sovereignty over Gothenland for the time being.
- King Alfonso the Battler of Navarre and Aragon launches a raid into Granada.
- The Venetians occupy Cephalonia. Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos restores their trading privileges.
- Olegarius creates the community of knights known as the confraternity of Tarragona to combat the Andalusians in Catalonia.[1]
By topic
Science
- Adelard of Bath translates Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.
Births
- Fan Chengda, Chinese poet, travel writer, and geographer (d. 1193)
- Averroes, Andalus judge and physician
- Eynion de Tilston, Norman English knight and lord of the manor
Deaths
- February 10 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (b. 1071)
- March 8 – Queen Urraca of León and Castile (b. 1082)
- October 1 – Morphia of Melitene, Queen of Jerusalem
- Edgar the Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (b. 1052)
- Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne (killed by upset peasants at the thing)
- Abbot Ekkehard of Aura
- Omar Khayyám, Persian poet and mathematician
- Al-Tutili, Andalusian poet