1134

Events

* Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.
* Saint Malachy becomes Archbishop of Armagh.
* Aed mac Domnaill becomes King of Ui Failghe.
* The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.
* The Augustinian Runcorn Priory is transferred to Norton Priory.
* Buckfastleigh Abbey is refounded.
* Aelred of Hexham enters the monastery at Rievaulx Abbey.
* St. Stephen Harding becomes abbott of Citeaux Abbey.
* Much of Chartres, France is destroyed by fire.
* Henry of Lausanne is sentenced to imprisonment by Pope Innocent II.
* Saint Hugh of Grenoble is canonized by Innocent II.
* Ermengarde becomes viscountess of Narbonne.
* Narbonne is seized by Alphonse I of Toulouse.
* The University of Salamanca is founded in Castile.
* Battle of Fraga: Alfonso I of Aragon is killed, and succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.
* The Zeeland archipelago is created by a massive storm in the North Sea.
* Battle of Färlev: Magnus IV of Norway defeats Harald IV of Norway.
* Harald Kesja and Magnus the Strong are defeated at the Battle of Fotevik.
* Eric II becomes King of Denmark.
* The Cathedral of St. Petri in Schleswig is completed.
* The House of Brandenburg is founded when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.
* The Abbey of St. Jacob is founded in Würzburg.
* Hermann III of Baden marries Bertha of Lorraine.
* Evermode of Ratzeburg becomes Abbot of Gottesgnaden.
* Ulrich I becomes Duke of Carinthia.
* The Humiliati retreat to a monastery in Milan.
* Roger II of Sicily defeats a revolt in Naples.
* Vsevolod Mstislavich of Novgorod defeats the Chuds and captures Tartu.
* Yuri Dolgoruki founds the town of Skniatino.
* Iziaslav II of Kiev becomes Prince of Vladimir and Volyn.
* Viacheslav of Kiev becomes Prince of Turov.
* Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia travel throughout France, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States.
* Leo Styppes becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
* Hugh II of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa, revolts against King Fulk of Jerusalem.
* Mas'ud becomes sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
* Abdul Qadir Jilani becomes principal of the Hanbali school in Baghdad.
* The Kangguo Era begins in the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
* The Japanese classic text "Uchigikishu" is written.
* Wu Ge, the Chinese Song Dynasty Deputy Transport Commissioner of Zhejiang, has paddle wheel warships constructed with a total of nine wheels and others with thirteen wheels.

Births

* King Sancho III of Castile (d. 1158)
* King Sverker I of Sweden (approximate date; d. 1156)
* Raymond V of Toulouse (d. 1194)
* Geoffrey, Count of Nantes
* Lord Basava, founder of the Lingayat sect

Deaths

* February 10 — Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
* March 28 — Saint Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order
* June 4 — Magnus the Strong, Swedish usurper
* June 6 — Saint Norbert, founder of the Norbertine order of canons
* June 25 — King Niels of Denmark
* August 13 — Piroska of Hungary, wife of John II Comnenus
* September — Alfonso I of Aragon
* Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (b. 1100)
* Hugh II of Le Puiset, crusader knight and Count of Jaffa (b. 1100)
* Tughrul II of Great Seljuk
* Emperor Taizong of Jin
* Patriarch John IX of Constantinople
* Engelbert of Carinthia
* Minamoto Motoko, consort of Emperor Go-Sanjo
* Gumushtugin, emir of the Danishmends
* Aed mac mac Tadhg Ua Cellaig, King of Hy-Many
* Bishop Ulfketil of Aarhus
* Reginald Mansoir, Constable of the Principality of Antioch
* Donnchad mac Con Faifne, King of Ui Failghe