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Politics

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Births – Deaths

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Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1118 in poetry

1118 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1118 MCXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1871
Armenian calendar	567 ԹՎ ՇԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	5868
Bengali calendar	525
Berber calendar	2068
English Regnal year	18 Hen. 1 – 19 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1662
Burmese calendar	480
Byzantine calendar	6626–6627
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 3814 or 3754     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 3815 or 3755
Coptic calendar	834–835
Discordian calendar	2284
Ethiopian calendar	1110–1111
Hebrew calendar	4878–4879
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1174–1175
- Shaka Samvat	1039–1040
- Kali Yuga	4218–4219
Holocene calendar	11118
Igbo calendar	118–119
Iranian calendar	496–497
Islamic calendar	511–512
Japanese calendar	Eikyū 6 / Gen'ei 1 (元永元年)
Javanese calendar	1023–1024
Julian calendar	1118 MCXVIII
Korean calendar	3451
Minguo calendar	794 before ROC 民前794年
Nanakshahi calendar	−350
Seleucid era	1429/1430 AG
Thai solar calendar	1660–1661

Year 1118 (MCXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Peace between England and Flanders is agreed.^[1]

British isles

• Enna mac Donnchada mac Murchada becomes King of Dublin in Ireland.
• Cu Faifne mac Congalaig becomes King of Uí Failghe in Ireland.
• Maelsechlainn Ua Faelain becomes King of the Déisi Muman in Ireland.
• The cantrefs of Rhos and Rhufoniog are annexed by Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd in Wales.
• The Archbishop of York is no longer required to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Reconstruction begins on Peterborough Cathedral in England, destroyed by fire in 1116.^[2]

Byzantine Empire

• John II Comnenus succeeds Alexius I as Byzantine emperor.

Eastern Europe

• Đorđe, Vojislavljević ruler of Serbia, is overthrown by Uroš I of Raška.
• George of Duklja is overthrown by his cousin Grubeša.
• Radostl becomes Bishop of Krakow.
• Zbraslav, now part of Prague, is founded.
• Sylvester of Kiev becomes bishop of Pereyaslav.

France

• A rebellion against Henry I of England breaks out in Normandy.
• Alberich of Rheims becomes Master at the school of Rheims.
• Charles I, Count of Flanders marries Margaret of Clermont.
• Peter Abelard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil have a child and marry secretly in Paris. Her uncle Fulbert has Abelard castrated and both Abelard and Héloïse enter religious orders.^[3]
• Amaury IV of Montfort divorces his wife Richilde, daughter of Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut.
• Wulgrin III becomes Count of Angoulême.
• Gervais becomes Count of Rethel.
• Montlhéry Castle is dismantled by Louis VI of France.

Germany

• Magdeburg is almost destroyed by fire.
• Reichenbach Abbey is founded.
• Zwickau, Eisenstadt, Kirchgandern, and Wolfenbüttel are first mentioned.
• Otto of Bamberg is suspended by the Pope, and Norbert of Xanten defends himself against charges of heresy at the Synod of Fritzlar.

Italy

• January 24 – Pope Gelasius II succeeds Pope Paschal II as the 161st pope.
• March 10 – Gregory VIII is elected antipope.
• The cathedral of Ferentino is completed.
• The restoration of Santa Maria in Cosmedin begins.
• The economic competition between Milan and Como drives the two cities to war.

Scandinavia

• Upon the death of his brother Philip, Inge the Younger becomes sole king of Sweden.
• Þorlákur Runólfsson becomes Bishop of Skálholt.

Spain

• The Almoravids lose their control of the Ebro valley:
  • Pope Gelasius II grants the status of Crusade to the Christian effort in the Ebro valley attracting numerous Gascon, Occitan and Norman knights.^[4]
  • December 18 – Alfonso the Battler expels the Moors from Zaragoza.^[5]
  • The troops of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona led by archbishop Oleguer Bonestruga capture Tarragona from the Moors.^[6]

Asia

East Asia

• The Genei era begins in Japan.
• The Zenghe era of Emperor Huizong of Song China ends, and the Chonghe era begins.
• The Yongning era of Emperor Chongzong of Western Xia ends.

Caucasus

• David IV of Georgia captures Lori from the Seljuk Turks.
• David IV of Georgia settles a number of Kipchaks in Georgia.

Western Asia

• June 11 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch, captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks.
• The Byzantine general Philocales captures Sardis from the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm.
• Baldwin I of Jerusalem invades Egypt.
• Baldwin of Le Bourg succeeds his cousin Baldwin I as king of Jerusalem.
• Roman of Le Puy becomes lord of Oultrejordain.
• Joscelin I succeeds Baldwin of Le Bourg as Count of Edessa.
• Garmond of Picquigny becomes Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
• Suleyman I ibn al-Ghazi becomes emir of Aleppo.
• Ahmed Sanjar and Mahmud II proclaim themselves rival Seljuk sultans upon the death of Mehmed I of Great Seljuk.
• Al-Mustarshid becomes Abbasid caliph.
• Bahram Shah becomes Ghaznavid Emperor.

South Asia

• June 29 – Vikram Chola becomes regent of the Chola kingdom.
• Battle of Kennagal: The Hoysala Empire defeats the Chalukya.

Births

• November 28 – Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
• December 21 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1170)
• Gualdim Pais, Portuguese Grand-Master of the Templars (d. 1195)
• Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy
• Gertrude, daughter of Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor and wife of Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
• Christina, daughter of Canute Lavard, wife of Magnus IV of Norway
• Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1185)
• Nur ad-Din Zangi, ruler of Syria (d. 1174)
• Ahmed ar-Rifa'i, founder of the Rifa'i Sufi order
• Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese general (d. 1181)
• Saigyo, Japanese poet

Deaths

Pope Paschal II died on January 21, 1118

Baldwin I of Jerusalem died on April 2, 1118

Alexius I Komnenos died on August 15, 1118

• January 21 – Pope Paschal II
• April 2 – King Baldwin I of Jerusalem
• April 16 – Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, mother of Roger II of Sicily, queen of Baldwin I of Jerusalem
• May 1 – Edith of Scotland, queen of Henry I of England
• June 5 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester
• July 7 – Florence of Worcester, long thought to be the author of the chronicle of John of Worcester
• August 15 – Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1048)
• Gissur Ísleifsson, Bishop of Skálholt
• Domnall mac Muirchertaig ua Briain, King of Dublin
• Rogan mac Domnaill meic Conchobair, King of Uí Failghe
• Count William of Évreux
• William III, Count of Angoulême
• Lithuise of Blois
• Milo II, lord of Montlhéry
• Hugh I, Count of Rethel
• Gerberge I, Countess of Provence
• Philip Halstensson, king of Sweden since 1105
• Jaquinta of Bari, Apulian dowager queen consort of Dioclea
• Maur, Bishop of Kraków
• Basil the Physician, Bogomil leader
• Arnulf of Chocques, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Mehmed I of Great Seljuk, Seljuk sultan
• Al-Mustazhir, Abbasid caliph
• Arslan Shah, Ghaznavid Emperor

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. "Peterborough Cathedral website". Retrieved 2007-12-19.
3. The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Revised ed.). London: Penguin. 2003. p. x. ISBN 978-0-140-44899-3.
4. Stalls, Clay (1995). Possessing the land: Aragon's expansion into Islam's Ebro frontier under Alfonso the Battler, 1104-1134. Brill. p. viii. ISBN 90-04-10367-8.
5. Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.86.
6. 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.