Year 1137 (MCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | |
Decades: | |
Years: |
Gregorian calendar | 1137 MCXXXVII |
Ab urbe condita | 1890 |
Armenian calendar | 586 ԹՎ ՇՁԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 5887 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1058–1059 |
Bengali calendar | 544 |
Berber calendar | 2087 |
English Regnal year | 2 Ste. 1 – 3 Ste. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 1681 |
Burmese calendar | 499 |
Byzantine calendar | 6645–6646 |
Chinese calendar | 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3834 or 3627 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3835 or 3628 |
Coptic calendar | 853–854 |
Discordian calendar | 2303 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1129–1130 |
Hebrew calendar | 4897–4898 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1193–1194 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1058–1059 |
- Kali Yuga | 4237–4238 |
Holocene calendar | 11137 |
Igbo calendar | 137–138 |
Iranian calendar | 515–516 |
Islamic calendar | 531–532 |
Japanese calendar | Hōen 3 (保延3年) |
Javanese calendar | 1043–1044 |
Julian calendar | 1137 MCXXXVII |
Korean calendar | 3470 |
Minguo calendar | 775 before ROC 民前775年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | −331 |
Seleucid era | 1448/1449 AG |
Thai solar calendar | 1679–1680 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1263 or 882 or 110 — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1264 or 883 or 111 |
Events
By place
Africa
- The Ethiopian Empire is established, under the Zagwe Dynasty.
- In the first commercial treaty between the Almohads and a Christian power, Genoa obtains trading rights in the ports of North Africa.[1]
Asia
- In Song Dynasty China, a fire breaks out in the new capital of Hangzhou; the government suspends the requirement of rent payments, alms of 108,840 kg (120 tons) of rice are distributed to the poor, and items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting are exempted from government taxation.
Europa
- March – Stephen of England fails in his attempt to re-capture the Duchy of Normandy, from Empress Matilda of England.[2]
- April 9 - Eleanor of Aquitaine becomes Duchess of Aquitaine, on the death of her Father, William X.
- June 4 – A fire destroys much of the city of York, including 39 churches and the York Minster cathedral. The event comes a day after a fire burns the cathedral in Rochester, Kent. Both fires are memorialized 600 years later by historian Paul de Rapin.[3]
- June 27 – The city of Bath, Somerset, is burned.[3]
- July 25 – Louis VII of France marries Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X, in Bordeaux Cathedral.
- August 1 – Louis succeeds as King of France, on the death of his father.
- A fleet of thirty-seven Almoravid ships attacks the coasts of southern Italy, under Norman rule.[1]
- Rochester Cathedral in England is severely damaged by a fire, and soon rebuilt.
Births
- Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)[4]
- Amalric I of Jerusalem
- Agnes of Poland, Grand Princess consort of Kiev
- Walter Map, Welsh historian (d. 1209)[5]
Deaths
- March 8 – Adela of Normandy, countess consort and regent of Blois (b. c. 1067)
- April 9 – William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
- June 23 – Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz
- August 1 – King Louis VI of France (b. 1081)
- September 18 – Eric II of Denmark
- October 30 – Sergius VII, Duke of Naples
- December 3 or 4 – Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1075)[6]
- date unknown
- Ramanuja, Indian philosopher (b. 1017)
- Pons, Count of Tripoli (b. c.1098)
- Antipope Gregory VIII
- Gruffudd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd
- probable – Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Byzantine soldier (b. 1062)
References
- ^ a b Picard 1997.
- ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 61–63. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b "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) p26
- ^ "Decameron Web | History". www.brown.edu. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- ^ Ashley, Leonard (2013). The Complete Book of Vampires. Souvenir Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780285642270.
- ^ "Lothar II (or III) | Holy Roman emperor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
Sources
- Picard, Christophe (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'occident au Moyen Âge, VIIIe-XIIIe siècle (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2130488101.
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