1107

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1070s  1080s  1090s  – 1100s –  1110s  1120s  1130s
Years:	1104 1105 1106 – 1107 – 1108 1109 1110

1107 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1107 in poetry

1107 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1107 MCVII
Ab urbe condita	1860
Armenian calendar	556 Ô¹ÕŽ Õ‡Ô¾Ô¶
Assyrian calendar	5857
Bengali calendar	514
Berber calendar	2057
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 1 â€“ 8 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1651
Burmese calendar	469
Byzantine calendar	6615–6616
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3803 or 3743     â€” to â€” 丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3804 or 3744
Coptic calendar	823–824
Discordian calendar	2273
Ethiopian calendar	1099–1100
Hebrew calendar	4867–4868
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1163–1164
- Shaka Samvat	1029–1030
- Kali Yuga	4208–4209
Holocene calendar	11107
Igbo calendar	107–108
Iranian calendar	485–486
Islamic calendar	500–501
Japanese calendar	Kajō 2 (嘉承２年)
Julian calendar	1107 MCVII
Korean calendar	3440
Minguo calendar	805 before ROC 民前805年
Seleucid era	1418/1419 AG
Thai solar calendar	1649–1650

Year 1107 (MCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• August 9 – Emperor Toba succeeds to the throne of Japan aged 4.
• Chinese money is printed in 3 colours to stymie counterfeiting.
• The highly cultivated emperor of China, Emperor Huizong of Song, writes his Treatise on Tea.

Europe

• January 8 – Alexander I becomes King of the Scots on the death of his brother Edgar.
• August 11 – Investiture Controversy in England is resolved by reconciliation of King Henry and Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury^[1][2][3] and the mass consecration of bishops^[4] by Anselm at the royal Palace of Westminster: William Giffard to Winchester, Roger to Salisbury, Reynelm to Hereford, William Warelwast to Exeter and Urban to Llandaff.^[2] Roger of Salisbury is also appointed Justiciar of England this year.^[5]
• October – The army of Bohemond of Tarente lands in Dyrrachium to try to conquer the Byzantine Empire.
• Autumn – The Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader sails to England on the first stage of the Norwegian Crusade to Palestine, the first European king to support the Crusaders.
• Saracen pirates raid the Benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands .^[6]
• The city of Florence starts expanding its control over the surrounding countryside and takes the city of Monte Orlandi.

Births

• June 12 – Emperor Gaozong of Song of China (d. 1187)
• Henry II of Austria (d. 1177)

Deaths

• January 8 – King Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
• August 9 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
• Robert Fitzhamon, Lord of Gloucester
• Kilij Arslan I, Sultan of Rüm
• Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
• Cheng Yi, Song Dynasty Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher (b. 1033)
• Mi Fu, Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (b. 1051)

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 116–117. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. pp. 78–79. ISBN 0-582-50236-5.
3. Hollister, C. Warren; Frost, Amanda Clark, ed. (2001). Henry I. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. pp. 209–210. ISBN 0-300-08858-2.
4. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
5. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 58–60. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
6. Unité mixte de recherche 5648--Histoire et archéologie des mondes chrétiens et musulmans médiévaux. Pays d'Islam et monde latin, Xe-XIIIe siècle: textes et documents. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon.