1108

Year 1108 (MCVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1070s  1080s  1090s  – 1100s –  1110s  1120s  1130s
Years:	1105 1106 1107 – 1108 – 1109 1110 1111

Events

By area

Asia

• The Taira and Minamoto clans join forces to rule Japan after defeating the warrior monks of the Enryakuji Temple near Kyoto.
• Alexius I Comnenus and Bohemund I of Antioch negotiate the Treaty of Devol.

Europe

• May – Battle of Uclés: The Almoravids defeat the Kingdom of Castile and roll back the advances of Reconquista; several towns recently captured by Christians are lost to the conquering Berbers such as Tarragona.
• Saint Magnus becomes the first Earl of Orkney.
• In Pistoia, Italy, the Cathedral of San Zeno burns to the ground.
• Louis VI of France starts to rule.
• First mention of the consuls of Bergamo indicating that the city has become an independent republic.

By topic

Religion

• Chichester Cathedral is consecrated.

Births

• Bohemund II of Antioch (d. 1131)
• Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (d. 1171)
• Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1141)

Deaths

• July 29 – King Philip I of France (b. 1052)
• Saint Alberic