1123
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1090s 1100s 1110s – 1120s – 1130s 1140s 1150s |
| Years: | 1120 1121 1122 – 1123 – 1124 1125 1126 |
| 1123 by topic | |
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| 1123 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1123 MCXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1876 |
| Armenian calendar | 572 ԹՎ ՇՀԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5873 |
| Bengali calendar | 530 |
| Berber calendar | 2073 |
| English Regnal year | 23 Hen. 1 – 24 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1667 |
| Burmese calendar | 485 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6631–6632 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3819 or 3759 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3820 or 3760 |
| Coptic calendar | 839–840 |
| Discordian calendar | 2289 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1115–1116 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4883–4884 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1179–1180 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1045–1046 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4224–4225 |
| Holocene calendar | 11123 |
| Igbo calendar | 123–124 |
| Iranian calendar | 501–502 |
| Islamic calendar | 516–517 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōan 4 (保安４年) |
| Julian calendar | 1123 MCXXIII |
| Korean calendar | 3456 |
| Minguo calendar | 789 before ROC 民前789年 |
| Seleucid era | 1434/1435 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1665–1666 |
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Year 1123 (MCXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Africa
- August 9 – Failure of a Norman campaign in North Africa, the Norman troops are massacred near Mahdia at the battle of al-Dimas.[1][2]
Asia
- February 25 – 5-year-old Emperor Sutoku succeeds his father Emperor Toba on the throne of Japan when the latter is forced to abdicate at the age of 21.
- May 29 – Battle of Yibneh: A Crusader force led by Eustace Grenier crushes a Fatimid army at Yibna.
- May 30 – The Venetian fleet defeats the Egyptian fleet off Ascalon.[3]
- The Pactum Warmundi is established between the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Europe
- First mention of the consuls of Bologna indicating that the city has become an independent comune of Italy.
- Siege of Deventer: Conflict between Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and Lothair of Supplinburg, Duke of Saxony.
- In accordance with the decision of the First Council of the Lateran, the archbishop of Compostela, Diego Gelmírez, declares the Crusade in Iberia against the Andalusians.[4]
By topic
Religion
- March 18 – First Council of the Lateran convenes in Rome; it confirms the Concordat of Worms (1122) and demands clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church.
- St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts") is founded in London; it will still be operating as a medical institution on its original site into the 21st century.
- Furness Abbey founded in the north-west of England by Stephen, Count of Boulogne, for the Order of Savigny; it will become the country's second wealthiest and most powerful Cistercian monastery.
Births
- Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (d. 1160)
Deaths
- August 29 – King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
- Emperor Taizu of Jin, chieftain of the Jurchen Wanyan tribe (b. 1068)
- Saint Peter of Pappacarbone
References
- ↑ Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 56.
- ↑ Johns, Jeremy (2002). Arabic administration in Norman Sicily: the royal dīwān. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81692-0.
- ↑ "Venice - Adriatic Powerhouse". Pericles Press. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
- ↑ Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5 37: 31–47 [43]. JSTOR 3679149.