1128

Year 1128 (MCXXVIII) was a leap 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:	1125 1126 1127 1128 1129 1130 1131

1128 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1128 MCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1881
Armenian calendar	577 ԹՎ ՇՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	5878
Balinese saka calendar	1049–1050
Bengali calendar	535
Berber calendar	2078
English Regnal year	28 Hen. 1 – 29 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1672
Burmese calendar	490
Byzantine calendar	6636–6637
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3824 or 3764     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3825 or 3765
Coptic calendar	844–845
Discordian calendar	2294
Ethiopian calendar	1120–1121
Hebrew calendar	4888–4889
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1184–1185
- Shaka Samvat	1049–1050
- Kali Yuga	4228–4229
Holocene calendar	11128
Igbo calendar	128–129
Iranian calendar	506–507
Islamic calendar	521–523
Japanese calendar	Daiji 3 (大治３年)
Javanese calendar	1033–1034
Julian calendar	1128 MCXXVIII
Korean calendar	3461
Minguo calendar	784 before ROC 民前784年
Nanakshahi calendar	−340
Seleucid era	1439/1440 AG
Thai solar calendar	1670–1671
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1254 or 873 or 101     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1255 or 874 or 102

Mosaic of Emperor John II (Komnenos)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Hungarian War: Emperor John II (Komnenos) defeats the Hungarians and their Serbian allies at the fortress of Haram (or Chramon), which is modern-day Nova Palanka. Many Hungarian troops are killed when a bridge they are crossing collapsed as they are fleeing for the Byzantines. John launches punitive raids against the Serbs and many are taken prisoner – as they are transported to Nicomedia to serve as military colonists.[1]

Europe

• June 24 – Battle of São Mamede: Count Alfonso I (Henriques) defeats the forces led by his mother, Queen Theresa of Portugal, near Guimarães, and gains control of the county. Alfonso styles himself "Prince of Portugal".
• June 29 – Conrad III, anti-king of Germany, is crowned "King of Italy" by Archbishop Anselmo della Pusterla at Monza in Lombardy.
• July 27 – The city of Bruges (modern Belgium) is founded. It receives its city charter – as well new walls and canals are build.
• Pope Honorius II invests Roger II of Sicily as duke of Apulia at Benevento, after his failure to form an coalition against Roger.
• King Louis VI (the Fat) of France agrees to the accession of Thierry of Alsace (or Theoderic), as count of Flanders.

England

• June 17 – King Henry I marries his only legitimate daughter, dowager Empress Matilda, to the 14-year-old Geoffrey V (the Fair), count of Anjou.

Levant

• Hugues de Payens, French Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar, visits both England and Scotland, where he raises men and money for the Order.

Asia

• Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of the Song Dynasty establishes a new capital at Yangzhou, while the government retreats south, after Jurchen forces capture the previous capital of Kaifeng, in the Jingkang Incident.
• Forces of the Kingdom of Champa invade Vietnam.[2]

By topic

Religion

• November 24 – Waverley Abbey is founded by Bishop William Giffard. The first abbot and 12 Cistercian monks are brought from L'Aumône Abbey in Normandy.[3]
• Honorius II recognizes and confirms the Order of the Knights Templar. The French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux codifies the rule of the Order.[4]
• Holyrood Abbey is founded in Edinburgh by King David I of Scotland.
• Kelso Abbey is founded by Scottish monks of the Tironensian Order.

Births

• March 18 – Stephen of Tournai, French bishop (d. 1203)
• Absalon, Danish archbishop and statesman (d. 1201)
• Adolf II, count of Schauenburg and Holstein (d. 1164)
• Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet (approximate date)
• Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid, Arab theologian (d. 1215)
• Constance of Hauteville, princess of Antioch (d. 1163)
• John Doukas (Komnenos), Byzantine governor (d. 1176)
• John Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocrat (approximate date)
• Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Irish archbishop of Dublin (d. 1180)
• Ludwig II (the Iron), landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1172)
• Muhammad II ibn Mahmud, Seljuk sultan (d. 1159)
• Ruzbihan Baqli, Persian poet and mystic (d. 1209)
• Taira no Norimori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1185)

Deaths

• January 1 – Albero I, prince-bishop of Liège (b. 1070)
• February 12 – Toghtekin, Turkish ruler of Damascus
• June 2 – Pier Leoni (or Petrus Leo), Roman consul
• July 28 – William Clito, count of Flanders (b. 1102)
• September 5 – Ranulf Flambard, bishop of Durham
• December 4 – Henry II, German nobleman (b. 1102)
• December 15 – Fulco I d'Este, Lombard nobleman
• Abu Ibrahim ibn Barun, Andalusian Jewish rabbi
• Conaing Ua Beigléighinn, Irish monk and abbot
• Constantine I of Torres, ruler (judge) of Logudoro
• Fujiwara no Kiyohira, Japanese nobleman (b. 1056)
• Geoffrey Brito (or le Breton), archbishop of Rouen
• Ibn Tumart, Almoravid political leader (or 1130)
• Jimena Muñoz (or Muñiz), Spanish noblewoman
• Rogvolod Vseslavich (Boris), prince of Polotsk
• Warmund (or Gormond), patriarch of Jerusalem

References

1. Angold, Michael (1997). The Byzantine Empire, 1025–1204: A Political History, p. 153. ISBN 978-0-5822-9468-4.
2. Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, pp. 140–141. Trans. Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
3. H.E. Malden, ed. (1967). 'House of Cistercian monks: Abbey of waverley', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2. Victoria County History. pp. 77–89.
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.