1119

Events

* February 2 — Pope Callixtus II succeeds Pope Gelasius II as the 162nd pope.
* 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.
* August 20 — Battle of Bremule: Henry I of England routs Louis VI.
* Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg (Middlesbrough) to Whitby.
* In his "Pingzhou Table Talks" published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese author 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

In pop culture

* 1119 is a song by Michale Graves off of Punk Rock Is Dead
* MCXIX is a song by Doomsword off of Resound the Horn