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 ԹՎ ՇԾԶ
Assyrian calendar	5857
Bengali calendar	514
Berber calendar	2057
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 1 – 8 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1651
Burmese calendar	469
Byzantine calendar	6615–6616
Chinese calendar	丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 3803 or 3743     — to — 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.