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Year 1137 (MCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The Ethiopian Empire is established under the Zagwe dynasty.
• 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 exempt from government taxation.

Europe

• A fleet of thirty-seven Almoravid ships attacks the coasts of Southern Italy under Norman rule.^[2]
• Louis VII is crowned King of France. He subsequently marries Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X.
• Rochester Cathedral is severely damaged by a fire, but is soon rebuilt.

Births

• Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria (d. 1193)
• Amalric I of Jerusalem
• Walter Map, Welsh historian (d. 1209)

Deaths

• March 8 – Adela of Normandy, by marriage countess 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 – Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1075)
• date unknown –
  • Ramanuja, Indian philosopher (b. 1017)
  • Pons, Count of Tripoli (b. c.1098)
  • Antipope Gregory VIII
  • Gruffydd ap Cynan, King of Gwynedd
• probable – Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Byzantine soldier (b. 1062)

References