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| Gregorian calendar | 1128 MCXXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1881 |
| Armenian calendar | 577 ԹՎ ՇՀԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5878 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1049–1050 |
| Bengali calendar | 535 |
| Berber calendar | 2078 |
| English Regnal year | 28 Hen. 1 – 29 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1672 |
| Burmese calendar | 490 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6636–6637 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3824 or 3764 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3825 or 3765 |
| Coptic calendar | 844–845 |
| Discordian calendar | 2294 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1120–1121 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4888–4889 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1184–1185 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1049–1050 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4228–4229 |
| Holocene calendar | 11128 |
| Igbo calendar | 128–129 |
| Iranian calendar | 506–507 |
| Islamic calendar | 521–523 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiji 3 (大治３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1033–1034 |
| Julian calendar | 1128 MCXXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3461 |
| Minguo calendar | 784 before ROC 民前784年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −340 |
| Seleucid era | 1439/1440 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1670–1671 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1254 or 873 or 101 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1255 or 874 or 102 |
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Mosaic of Emperor John II (Komnenos)
Year 1128 (MCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine–Hungarian War: Emperor John II (Komnenos) defeats the Hungarians and their Serbian allies at the fortress of Haram (or Chramon), which is modern-day Nova Palanka. [1]
Europe
- June 24 – Battle of São Mamede: Count Alfonso I (Henriques) defeats the forces led by his mother, Queen Theresa of Portugal, near Guimarães, and gains control of the county. Alfonso styles himself "Prince of Portugal".
- June 29 – Conrad III, anti-king of Germany, 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 its city charter – as well new walls and canals are built.
- Pope Honorius II invests Roger II of Sicily as duke of Apulia at Benevento, after his failure to form an coalition against Roger.
- King Louis VI (the Fat) of France agrees to the accession of Thierry of Alsace (or Theoderic), as count of Flanders.
England
- June 17 – King Henry I marries his only legitimate daughter, dowager Empress Matilda, to the 14-year-old Geoffrey V (the Fair), count of Anjou.
Britain
- Hugues de Payens, French Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar, visits both England and Scotland, where he raises men and money for the Order.
Asia
- Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of the Song Dynasty establishes a new capital at Yangzhou, while the government retreats south, after Jurchen forces capture the previous capital of Kaifeng, in the Jingkang Incident.
- Forces of the Kingdom of Champa invade Vietnam.[2]
By topic
Religion
- November 24 – Waverley Abbey is founded by Bishop William Giffard. The first abbot and 12 Cistercian monks are brought from L'Aumône Abbey in Normandy.[3]
- Honorius II recognizes and confirms the Order of the Knights Templar. The French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux codifies the rule of the Order.[4]
- Holyrood Abbey is founded in Edinburgh by King David I of Scotland.
- Kelso Abbey is founded by Scottish monks of the Tironensian Order.
Births
- March 18 – Stephen of Tournai, French bishop (d. 1203)
- Absalon, Danish archbishop and statesman (d. 1201)
- Adolf II, count of Schauenburg and Holstein (d. 1164)
- Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet (approximate date)
- Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid, Arab theologian (d. 1215)
- Constance of Hauteville, princess of Antioch (d. 1163)
- John Doukas (Komnenos), Byzantine governor (d. 1176)
- John Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocrat (approximate date)
- Lorcán Ua Tuathail, Irish archbishop of Dublin (d. 1180)
- Ludwig II (the Iron), landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1172)
- Muhammad II ibn Mahmud, Seljuk sultan (d. 1159)
- Ruzbihan Baqli, Persian poet and mystic (d. 1209)
- Taira no Norimori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1185)
Deaths
- January 1 – Albero I, prince-bishop of Liège (b. 1070)
- February 12 – Toghtekin, Turkish ruler of Damascus
- June 2 – Pier Leoni (or Petrus Leo), Roman consul
- July 28 – William Clito, count of Flanders (b. 1102)
- September 5 – Ranulf Flambard, bishop of Durham
- December 4 – Henry II, German nobleman (b. 1102)
- December 15 – Fulco I d'Este, Lombard nobleman
- Abu Ibrahim ibn Barun, Andalusian Jewish rabbi
- Conaing Ua Beigléighinn, Irish monk and abbot
- Constantine I of Torres, ruler (judge) of Logudoro
- Fujiwara no Kiyohira, Japanese nobleman (b. 1056)
- Geoffrey Brito (or le Breton), archbishop of Rouen
- Ibn Tumart, Almoravid political leader (or 1130)
- Jimena Muñoz (or Muñiz), Spanish noblewoman
- Rogvolod Vseslavich (Boris), prince of Polotsk
- Warmund (or Gormond), patriarch of Jerusalem
References
- ^ Angold, Michael (1997). The Byzantine Empire, 1025–1204: A Political History, p. 153. ISBN 978-0-5822-9468-4.
- ^ Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, pp. 140–141. Trans. Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
- ^ H.E. Malden, ed. (1967). 'House of Cistercian monks: Abbey of waverley', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2. Victoria County History. pp. 77–89.
- ^ Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5. 37: 31–47 [45]. JSTOR 3679149.