1131
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1100s 1110s 1120s – 1130s – 1140s 1150s 1160s |
| Years: | 1128 1129 1130 – 1131 – 1132 1133 1134 |
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| 1131 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1131 MCXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1884 |
| Armenian calendar | 580 ԹՎ ՇՁ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5881 |
| Bengali calendar | 538 |
| Berber calendar | 2081 |
| English Regnal year | 31 Hen. 1 – 32 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1675 |
| Burmese calendar | 493 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6639–6640 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3827 or 3767 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3828 or 3768 |
| Coptic calendar | 847–848 |
| Discordian calendar | 2297 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1123–1124 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4891–4892 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1187–1188 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1053–1054 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4232–4233 |
| Holocene calendar | 11131 |
| Igbo calendar | 131–132 |
| Iranian calendar | 509–510 |
| Islamic calendar | 525–526 |
| Japanese calendar | Daiji 6 / Tenshō 1 (天承元年) |
| Julian calendar | 1131 MCXXXI |
| Korean calendar | 3464 |
| Minguo calendar | 781 before ROC 民前781年 |
| Seleucid era | 1442/1443 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1673–1674 |
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Year 1131 (MCXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By area
Asia
- Fulk of Anjou and Melisende become King and Queen of Jerusalem.
Europe
- Ramon Berenguer IV becomes Count of Barcelona.
- Between 1131 and 1136 – Theotokos of Vladimir arrives in Kiev.
- The knights Templar found their first stronghold in the kingdom of Aragon.[1]
By topic
Arts and culture
- Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in China (completed in 1162).
Religion
- May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded.
- Council of Rheims.[1]
- Alberich becomes Archdeacon of Reims.
Births
- January 14 – King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)
Deaths
- March 1 – King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
- April 30 – Saint Adjutor
- August 21 – King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
- December 4 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
- Alger of Liège, French monk at Cluny (b. 1055)
- Bohemund II of Antioch (b. 1108)
- Gaston IV of Béarn
- Joscelin I, Count of Edessa
- Peter the Hermit, French priest and crusader
- Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (b. 1082)