1122

Year 1122 (MCXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1100s 1110s 1120s 1130s 1140s
Years:	1119 1120 1121 1122 1123 1124 1125

1122 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1122 MCXXII
Ab urbe condita	1875
Armenian calendar	571 ԹՎ ՇՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	5872
Balinese saka calendar	1043–1044
Bengali calendar	529
Berber calendar	2072
English Regnal year	22 Hen. 1 – 23 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1666
Burmese calendar	484
Byzantine calendar	6630–6631
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3818 or 3758     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3819 or 3759
Coptic calendar	838–839
Discordian calendar	2288
Ethiopian calendar	1114–1115
Hebrew calendar	4882–4883
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1178–1179
- Shaka Samvat	1043–1044
- Kali Yuga	4222–4223
Holocene calendar	11122
Igbo calendar	122–123
Iranian calendar	500–501
Islamic calendar	515–516
Japanese calendar	Hōan 3 (保安３年)
Javanese calendar	1027–1028
Julian calendar	1122 MCXXII
Korean calendar	3455
Minguo calendar	790 before ROC 民前790年
Nanakshahi calendar	−346
Seleucid era	1433/1434 AG
Thai solar calendar	1664–1665
Tibetan calendar	阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1248 or 867 or 95     — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1249 or 868 or 96

Emperor Henry V (r. 1111–1125)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Battle of Beroia: Emperor John II (Komnenos) transfers the Byzantine field army from Asia Minor (where it has been engaged against the Seljuk Turks) to the Balkans. The Pechenegs who have set up their camp (defended by a circular formation of wagons) near Beroia (modern Bulgaria) are defeated. John orders the Varangian Guard (some 480 men), the elite Palace Guard to hack their way through the Pecheneg circle of wagons, causing a general rout in their camp. Pecheneg survivors are taken captive and enlisted into the Byzantine army.[1]

Levant

• September 13 – Count Joscelin I and Waleran of Le Puiset are taken prisoner by Turkish forces led by Belek Ghazi near Saruj in northern Syria. Belek offers Joscelin liberty in return for the cession of Edessa. He refuses to accept these terms; Joscelin and Waleran and 60 other Crusaders are taken to the castle at Kharput.[2]

Europe

• August 8 – A Venetian fleet under Doge Domenico Michiel with well over a hundred ships sets sail from Venice, carrying an army of around 15,000 men and siege-material. The fleet departs for Palestine – but the Venetians pause to attack Corfu (this in retaliation for the refusal of John II to renew exclusive trading privileges). For six months, throughout the winter of 1122–23, the Venetians lay siege to the Byzantine island.[3]
• King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon creates the lay community of knights known as the Confraternity of Belchite. It is the first local attempt to imitate the Order of the Knights Templar created in Palestine.[4]
• The Almoravid fleet attacks Sicily to suppress the Italo-Norman raiders.[5] The same year (related?), the Muslim population of Malta rebels against the Normans.

Eurasia

• Siege of Tbilisi: The Georgians led by King David IV (the Builder) re-conquer the city of Tbilisi from the Emirate of Tbilisi after a 1-year siege. David makes it his capital and unifies the Georgian State.

By topic

Religion

• September 23 – The Concordat of Worms: Emperor Henry V recognizes freedom of election of the clergy and promises to restore all Church property. This bringing an end to the power struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, known as the Investiture Controversy.

Births

• February 24 – Wanyan Liang, Chinese emperor (d. 1161)
• Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and England (d. 1204)
• Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1190)
• Fujiwara no Kiyoko, Japanese empress consort (d. 1182)
• Ibn Hubal, Arab physician and scientist (approximate date)
• Isaac ben Abba Mari, French Jewish rabbi (approximate date)
• Jayavarman VII, Cambodian ruler of the Khmer Empire (d. 1218)

Deaths

• January 18 – Christina Ingesdotter, Kievan princess
• March 12 – Giso IV, count of Gudensberg (b. 1070)
• May 15 – Yejong, Korean ruler of Goryeo (b. 1079)
• August 9 – Cuno of Praeneste, German cardinal
• September 9 – Al-Hariri of Basra, Abbasid poet (b. 1054)
• October 20 – Ralph d'Escures, English archbishop
• November 8 – Ilghazi, Artukid ruler of Mardin
• November 28 – Ottokar II, margrave of Styria
• December 3 – Berthold III, duke of Zähringen
• December 4 – Henry III, duke of Carinthia
• Al-Baghawi, Persian hadith scholar and writer
• Alberada of Buonalbergo, duchess of Apulia
• John of Tours (de Villula), bishop of Wells
• Sybilla of Normandy, queen of Scotland
• Wang Jha-ji, Korean general (b. 1066)

References

1. Cinnamus, Ioannes (1976). Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus, p. 16. New York, New York and West Sussex, United Kingdom: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-23-104080-8.
2. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 130. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
3. Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 134. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
4. Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5. 37: 31–47 [45]. JSTOR 3679149.
5. Picard, C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.