1136

Year 1136 (MCXXXVI) 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:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1133 1134 1135 – 1136 – 1137 1138 1139

Events

By place

Africa

• Béjaïa repeals a Genoan naval assault.

Europe

• February 5 – Treaty of Durham: Stephen I of England concedes Cumberland to David I of Scotland.
• The people of Novgorod rebel against the hereditary prince Vsevolod of Pskov and remove him from power.
• Battle of Crug Mawr: Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeats the Normans.
• Grimoald, duke of Bari, supported by the emperor, rebels against the king of Sicily Roger II.

By topic

Arts and culture

• The Saint Denis Basilica is completed in Paris.
• Peter Abelard writes the Historia Calamitatum, describing his relationship with Heloise.

Births

• Amalric I of Jerusalem
• William of Newburgh, English historian (d. 1198)

Deaths

• April 15 – Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (b. 1094)
• May 28 – Hughes de Payens, first Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• October 28 – Boleslaus III of Poland (b. 1086)
• November 15 – Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
• November 21 – William de Corbeil, Archbishop of Canterbury
• date unknown
  • Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi, Spanish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1070)
  • Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, Persian physician