1116
Year 1116 (MCXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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 |
Events
By area
Africa
- Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins an invasion of Egypt.
- The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, takes over the independent island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.[1]
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.
- Almoravid troops take over the Balearic islands whose Muslim king had been severely weakened by Pisan and Catalan raiders.[2]
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.
Births
Deaths
- February 3 – Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
- February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, a preacher and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault (b. c. 1045)
References
- ↑ Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" (PDF). Retrieved January 27, 2013.
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(help) - ↑ Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.83.