1101

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1070s  1080s  1090s  – 1100s –  1110s  1120s  1130s
Years:	1098 1099 1100 – 1101 – 1102 1103 1104

1101 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1101 in poetry

1101 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1101 MCI
Ab urbe condita	1854
Armenian calendar	550 ԹՎ ՇԾ
Assyrian calendar	5851
Bengali calendar	508
Berber calendar	2051
English Regnal year	1 Hen. 1 – 2 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1645
Burmese calendar	463
Byzantine calendar	6609–6610
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 3797 or 3737     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 3798 or 3738
Coptic calendar	817–818
Discordian calendar	2267
Ethiopian calendar	1093–1094
Hebrew calendar	4861–4862
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1157–1158
- Shaka Samvat	1023–1024
- Kali Yuga	4202–4203
Holocene calendar	11101
Igbo calendar	101–102
Iranian calendar	479–480
Islamic calendar	494–495
Japanese calendar	Kōwa 3 (康和３年)
Julian calendar	1101 MCI
Korean calendar	3434
Minguo calendar	811 before ROC 民前811年
Seleucid era	1412/1413 AG
Thai solar calendar	1643–1644

Year 1101 (MCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It was the 2nd year of the 1100s decade, and the 1st year of the 12th century.

Events

The Crusade of 1001.

By location

Asia

• April – King Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures Arsuf and Caesarea (in May).
• Crusade of 1101: Second wave of European crusaders attempt to cross Anatolia to reach the Kingdom of Jerusalem. They are heavily defeated by the Seljuq troops of Kilij Arslan I at Heraclea Cybistra and just a handful of knights manage to reach Palestine.

Europe

• June 20 – Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, lands at Portsmouth to try to take the throne of England from his brother, Henry. Later that year (July), he signs the Treaty of Alton, giving up his claim to the Anglo-Norman throne and establishing Henry I as King of England.
• June 22 – At birth, Roger II becomes count of Sicily and duke of Calabria. His mother becomes regent.
• August – The troops of the Almoravid ruler, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, besiege Valencia, which is defended by Jimena Díaz, widow of El Cid. The city holds until May 1102.^[1]
• Fall – Countess Mathilda takes Ferrara.
• November – At the death of his father, Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, Welf II, Duke of Bavaria becomes duke of Bavaria.
• The County of Berg, Germany is established.

By topic

Culture

• A vast compilation of Liao, Korean, and Song Buddhist writings is completed.

Religion

• April 19 – Canute II of Denmark is canonized.^[2]
• At the death of antipope Theodoric, the partisan of the Holy Roman Emperor choose Albert as the new antipope.
• Establishment of the Fontevraud Abbey.

The cloister of Fontevraud Abbey

Deaths

• June 22 – Count Roger I of Sicily (b. 1031)
• July 27
  • Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
  • Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester
• October 6 – Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
• October 18 – Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053).
• November 6 – Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, duke of Bavaria.
• date unknown
  • Su Shi, Chinese statesman and poet (b. 1037)
  • Su Song, Chinese scientist and engineer (b. 1020)

References

1. Lagardère, Vincent (1989). Les Almoravides jusqu'au règne de Yūsuf b. Tāšfīn (1039-1106). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-7384-0467-1.
2. Klaniczay, Gábor; Eva Pálmai (2002). Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-42018-1.