1126
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1126 (MCXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1126th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 126th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 12th century, and the 7th year of the 1120s decade. As of the start of 1126, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1090s 1100s 1110s – 1120s – 1130s 1140s 1150s |
| Years: | 1123 1124 1125 – 1126 – 1127 1128 1129 |
| 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) 3822 or 3762 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3823 or 3763 |
| 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 |
Events
changeBy area
changeAsia
change- January–March – In Song Dynasty China, scholars and farmers demonstrate around Kaifeng for the restoration of a probity military official, Li Gang (李綱). Small conflicts erupt between the protestors and the Government.
- Two previously written Chinese pharmaceutical works, one by Shen Kuo and another by Su Shi, are combined into one written work.
- The rule of Emperor Huizong of Song ends in China.
- The Jin Dynasty is established in the north of China, following the Song Dynasty's loss at the Huang He River valley. Remnants of the court flee south, including much of the populace and communities such as the Kaifeng Jews.
Europe
change- 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.
- Alfonso VII is crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.
- 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
changeScience
change- Adelard of Bath translates Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.
Births
change- Fan Chengda, Chinese poet, travel writer, and geographer (d. 1193)
- Averoes, Andalus judge and physician
- Eynion de Tilston Lord of the Manor of Tilston
Deaths
change- February 10 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (b. 1071)
- March 8 – Queen Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
- October 1 – Morphia of Melitene, Queen of Jerusalem
- Edgar 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 Khayyam, Persian poet and mathematician
