1119 facts for kids

Year 1119 (MCXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• June 28 – Battle of Ager Sanguinis: Ilghazi, the ruler of Aleppo, wipes out a Crusader army from the Principality of Antioch.
• August 14 – Battle of Hab: Baldwin II of Jerusalem's Crusaders defeat Ilghazi's army, saving Antioch.

Europe

• August 20 – Battle of Bremule: Henry I of England routs Louis VI.
• September 19 – Severe Earthquake in Gloucestershire & Warwickshire, England.
• Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg (Middlesbrough) to Whitby.

By topic

Religion

• February 2 – Pope Callixtus II succeeds Pope Gelasius II as the 162nd pope.
• Knights Templar Founded by Hugh de Payns.
• Councils of Toulouse and Reims.
  • The archbishop of Tarragona, Oleguer Bonestruga, preaches about a Crusade against the Moors in Catalonia.
  • In Toulouse, condemnation by the Church of the Petrobrusian heresy.

Technology

• In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese writer Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.
• Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.

Births

• July 7 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
• Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1176)

Deaths

• January 24 – Pope Gelasius II
• July 17 – Baldwin VII of Flanders
• Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
• Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch
• Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick

See also

In Spanish: 1119 para niños