1116 facts for kids

Year 1116 (MCXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins an invasion of Egypt.
• The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, takes over the independent island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.

Americas

• The Aztecs leave Aztlán, searching for the site of what will eventually become Tenochtitlán (later Mexico City).

Europe

• The Portuguese, under the leadership of countess Theresa take two Galician cities, Tui and Ourense. In reply, the sister of Countess Theresa, Queen Urraca of Leon and Castile, attacks Portugal.
• Almoravid troops take over the Balearic islands whose Muslim king had been severely weakened by Pisan and Catalan raiders.

By topic

Arts and technology

• The modern book of separate pages stitched together is invented in China.
• Construction starts on the Chennakesava Temple in India.
• Aak music is introduced to the Korean court by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

Births

• Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (d. 1173)

Deaths

• February 3 – Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
• February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, a preacher and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault (b. c. 1045)

Images for kids

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  Queen Theresa of Portugal (1080–1130)

See also

In Spanish: 1116 para niños