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Calendar year
Year
1126
(
MCXXVI
) was a
common year starting on Friday
(link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar
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Events
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By place
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Byzantine Empire
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Levant
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Europe
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Britain
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Asia
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- Spring – In
China
, scholars and farmers demonstrate around the capital city of
Kaifeng
, for the restoration of a trusted military official,
Li Gang
(李綱). Small conflicts erupt between the protestors and the government.
- January 18
– Emperor
Hui Zong
of the
Song Dynasty
abdicates in favour of his eldest son,
Qin Zong
after a 24-year reign. Hui Zong assumes the honorary title of
Taishang Huang
(or "Retired Emperor").
- Jin?Song War
: Jurchen forces reach the
Yellow River
Valley, two days after
New Year
. Remnants of the court flee south, including much of the populace, and communities such as the
Kaifeng Jews
.
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- January 31
– Jurchen forces lay siege to Kaifeng. Qin Zong negotiates the terms of surrender, agreeing an annual
indemnity
. He orders Song forces to defend the prefectures of the Northern Song.
By topic
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Literature
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Religion
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- Olegarius
, archbishop of
Tarragona
, creates a community of knights (known as the "Confraternity of Tarragona"), to combat the Almoravids in
Catalonia
.
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Births
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- Abu Madyan
, Andalusian mystic and
Sufi
master (d.
1198
)
- Averroes ibn Rushd
, Andalusian judge and physician (d. 1198)
- Eynion de Tilston
, Norman
knight
and lord of
Tilston
(approximate date)
- Fan Chengda
, Chinese politician, poet and geographer (d.
1193
)
- Michael the Syrian
("the Great"), Syriac patriarch (d.
1199
)
- Mieszko III the Old
, duke of
Greater Poland
(d.
1202
)
- Muneko
, Japanese princess and empress (d.
1189
)
- Peter I of Courtenay
, French
nobleman
(d.
1183
)
- Sibylla of Burgundy
, queen of
Sicily
(d.
1150
)
- Sviatoslav III
, Grand Prince of
Kiev
(d.
1194
)
- Taira no Tokiko
, Japanese
Buddhist
nun (d.
1185
)
Deaths
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- February 18
–
Otto II the Black
, Moravian prince (b.
1085
)
- March 8
–
Urraca
, queen regnant of
Leon
and
Galicia
(b.
1079
)
- July 30
–
Cecilia of Normandy
(or Cecily), English princess
- September 1
–
?wi?tosława of Poland
, queen of
Bohemia
- October 1
–
Morphia of Melitene
, queen of
Jerusalem
(or
1127
)
- December 4
–
Omar Khayyam
, Persian
mathematician
(b.
1048
)
- December 13
–
Henry IX the Black
, duke of
Bavaria
(b.
1075
)
- December 29
–
Wulfhilde of Saxony
, duchess of Bavaria (b.
1072
)
- Abu Bakr al-Turtushi
, Andalusian political philosopher (b.
1059
)
- Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Fadl
, Seljuk ruler (
vizier
) of
Damascus
- Ahmad Ghazali
, Persian mystic and writer (approximate date)
- Al-Tutili
("Blind Poet of Tudela"), Andalusian
Muwallad
poet
- Bertrand of Comminges
, French bishop and saint (b.
1050
)
- Cai Jing
, Chinese politician and
calligrapher
(b.
1047
)
- Edgar the Ætheling
, uncrowned king of
England
(b.
1051
)
- Ekkehard of Aura
, German
abbot
, chronicler and writer
- Ragnvald Knaphovde
, Swedish pretender (approximate date)
- Tong Guan
, Chinese general and political adviser (b.
1054
)
- Vikramaditya VI
, king of the
Western Chalukya Empire
- Waleran of Le Puiset
, French nobleman (approximate date)
- Wynebald de Ballon
, Norman nobleman (b.
1058
)
References
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- ^
a
b
Runciman, Steven
(1952).
A History of The Crusades. Vol
II
: The Kingdom of Jerusalem
. pp. 140?141.
ISBN
978-0-241-29876-3
.
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Bellum.cz ? Battle of Chlumec 18th February 1126
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Fierro, Maribel (1997). "Christian Success and Muslim Fear in Andalusi Writing during the Almoravid and Almohad Periods". In Rubin, Uri; Wasserstein, David (eds.).
Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam
. Eisenbrauns. pp. 155?156.
ISBN
978-1-57506-026-2
. Retrieved
May 11,
2024
.
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Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. (August 20, 1987).
A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period
. Cambridge University Press. p. 87.
ISBN
978-0-521-33767-0
. Retrieved
May 11,
2024
.
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Mote, Frederick W. (1999).
Imperial China: 900?1800
, p. 196. Harvard University Press.
ISBN
978-0-674-01212-7
.
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Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150".
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
. 5.
37
: 31?47 [46].
JSTOR
3679149
.