Year 1114 (MCXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
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| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 1114 MCXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1867 |
| Armenian calendar | 563 ԹՎ ՇԿԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5864 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1035–1036 |
| Bengali calendar | 521 |
| Berber calendar | 2064 |
| English Regnal year | 14 Hen. 1 – 15 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1658 |
| Burmese calendar | 476 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6622–6623 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 3811 or 3604 — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 3812 or 3605 |
| Coptic calendar | 830–831 |
| Discordian calendar | 2280 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1106–1107 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4874–4875 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1170–1171 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1035–1036 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4214–4215 |
| Holocene calendar | 11114 |
| Igbo calendar | 114–115 |
| Iranian calendar | 492–493 |
| Islamic calendar | 507–508 |
| Japanese calendar | Eikyū 2 (永久２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1019–1020 |
| Julian calendar | 1114 MCXIV |
| Korean calendar | 3447 |
| Minguo calendar | 798 before ROC 民前798年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −354 |
| Seleucid era | 1425/1426 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1656–1657 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1240 or 859 or 87 — to — 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1241 or 860 or 88 |
Events edit
By place edit
Europe edit
- January 7 – Emperor Henry V marries Matilda (or Maude), 11-year-old daughter of King Henry I of England, at Worms (modern Germany). A political conflict breaks out across the Holy Roman Empire after the marriage, triggered when Henry arrests Chancellor Adalbert and various other German princes.[1]
- Count Ramon Berenguer III (the Great) of Barcelona, joins the expedition to the Balearic Islands. A Pisan and Catalan fleet (some 450 ships), supported by a large army, conquer Ibiza and Mallorca. They destroy the bases on the islands used by Moorish pirates to prey on Mediterranean shipping.
- Battle of Martorell: The Almoravid governor of Zaragoza, Muhàmmad ibn al-Hajj, launches an offensive against the County of Barcelona, but is defeated by Ramon Berenguer III.[2]
- As part of the Norman expansion southward, Count Routrou II enters the service of King Alfonso I (the Battler) of Aragon.[3]
Asia edit
- Emperor Hui Zong of the Song Dynasty sends a gift of Chinese musical instruments, for use in royal banquets to the Korean court of Goryeo, by request from King Yejong.
By topic edit
Earthquake edit
- November 29 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. From Antioch and Mamistra to Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks.[4]
Religion edit
- The cathedral of Chichester in England, constructed of wood, is destroyed by fire.[5]
- Pontigny Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, is founded (located in Burgundy).
Births edit
- Al-Suhayli, Moorish scholar and writer (d. 1185)
- Bhāskara II, Indian mathematician (d. 1185)
- Dirk VI (or Theodoric), count of Holland (d. 1157)
- Fujiwara no Shunzei, Japanese nobleman (d. 1204)
- Gebhard III, German nobleman (approximate date)
- Gerard of Cremona, Italian translator (d. 1187)
- Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Northumbria (d. 1152)
- Otto I, German bishop and chronicler (d. 1158)
- Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona (d. 1162)
Deaths edit
- February 24 – Thomas II, archbishop of York
- October – Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Mustazhir, was the son of Abbasid caliph al-Mustazhir and Ismah.
- Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian (or 1115)
- Álvar Fáñez (or Háñez), Castilian nobleman
- Alypius of the Caves, Kievan monk and painter
- Erard I, French nobleman and crusader (b. 1060)
- Nestor the Chronicler, Kievan historian (or 1113)
- Richard of Salerno, Norman nobleman (b. 1060)
- Shahriyar IV, king of Mazandaran (b. 1039)
- Tokushi, Japanese empress consort (b. 1060)
References edit
- ^ Marjorie Chibnall (1991). The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English, p. 27. London, UK: Basil Blackwell, ISBN 978-0-631-15737-3.
- ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 86.
- ^ McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders and the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and te principality of Tarragona 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History. 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 105. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p. 25.