Kin'yō Wakashū, an imperial Japanese poetry anthology, completed Death years link to the corresponding "[year] inpoetry" article. There are conflicting or...
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transporting many nobles, including the heir to the English throne, that sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur during a trip from...
century Hartmann von Aue (c. 1160 - 1210s), writing in Middle High German Emergence of Turkic poetry Michael Glykas Theodore Prodromos (c. 1100 - c. 1165/70)...
the enemy camp – but does not further pursue the Fatimids. The battle ends in the last large-scale attempt of the Fatimids to reconquer Palestine. The Almoravid...
to retreat to Salerno. Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire. June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000...
weeks (due to constant Seljuk skirmishes) forced to fall back on Afamiya in northern Syria. Winter – The Crusaders, led by Baldwin I, besiege Tyre, without...
IV, count of Barcelona, launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and pillages the country all the way to Cadiz....
del Vasto, the wealthy widow of Count Roger I of Sicily ('Bosso') in Acre. She lands in Palestine accompanied by Arab soldiers (her personal bodyguard)...
initiated in the Maghreb by Ibn Tumart in the 1120s. The last Almoravid ruler, Ishaq ibn Ali, was killed when the Almohads captured Marrakesh in 1147 and...
parataxis (a defensive formation, consisting of a hollow square, with the baggage in the centre). During the battle, the Seljuk Turks mount several attacks on...
is crowned "King of Italy" by Archbishop Anselmo della Pusterla at Monza in Lombardy. July 27 – The city of Bruges (modern Belgium) is founded. It receives...
prince of Antioch, marries Constance of France (daughter of King Philip I) in the cathedral of Chartres. Philip agrees to marry his second daughter, the...
Raymond IV). He establishes the County of Tripoli, the fourth Crusader state in the Middle East. Bertrand deposes Raymond's nephew William II as nominal count...
Mathilda of Tuscany leads a successful expedition in northern Italy and takes Ferrara. The county of Berg in Germany is established. February 3 – Ranulf Flambard...
envoys to Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk ruler of Mosul, to seek his protection in exchange of Damascus. Zengi crosses the Euphrates, receiving the surrender...
of Chichester, in England. Construction begins on the tower of Winchester Cathedral, building continues until 1120. Pistoia Cathedral in Italy is damaged...
triumphant entry at Aleppo, Crusader prisoners are dragged in chains – where they are tortured to death in the streets. The massacre leads to the name of the...
(1115–1234). In 1279, the Mongol Yuan dynasty conquered the Song. Yellow River course changes Major Yellow River course changes Liao dynasty invasion in 1004...
wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Manuel I, who is chosen as his successor, in preference to his elder surviving...
September 30 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing great devastation and killing 300,000 people. January...
Salerno and other cities that have resisted him. Burgsteinfurt Castle is built in what is now Steinfurt (modern Germany). Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of...
city of Guimarães, which ended in their withdrawal. Summer – King Roger II of Sicily claims the Hauteville possessions in Italy as well the overlordship...
Nur al-Din, misinformed of the strength of the Crusader forces, retreats. In fact the Zangid forces (some 6,000 men) outnumber the Crusaders by over four...
make a truce, leaving the frontier in northern Syria in peace for 18 months. May 23 – Emperor Henry V dies of cancer in Utrecht after leading an expedition...
Second Crusade at Vézelay, in Burgundy. King Louis VII of France and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, take up the cross. In a repeat of the events of...
market in Paris. May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded in Wales by Cistercian monks in the Wye Valley. Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in Jiangsu...
while the Venetians are on a naval expedition. Doge Ordelafo Faliero dies in battle (near Zadar) against the Hungarians. Faliero is succeeded by Domenico...
Alice) arranges a marriage in secret with her 8-year-old daughter Constance. She is kidnapped and taken to the cathedral in Antioch, where Ralph hastily...
Sozopolis: Byzantine forces under Emperor John II Komnenos conquer Sozopolis in Pisidia, from the Sultanate of Rum. The Seljuk garrison is defeated while...
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