1116

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1080s  1090s  1100s  – 1110s –  1120s  1130s  1140s
Years:	1113 1114 1115 – 1116 – 1117 1118 1119

1116 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1116 in poetry

1116 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1116 MCXVI
Ab urbe condita	1869
Armenian calendar	565 ԹՎ ՇԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	5866
Bengali calendar	523
Berber calendar	2066
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 1 – 17 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1660
Burmese calendar	478
Byzantine calendar	6624–6625
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3812 or 3752     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3813 or 3753
Coptic calendar	832–833
Discordian calendar	2282
Ethiopian calendar	1108–1109
Hebrew calendar	4876–4877
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1172–1173
- Shaka Samvat	1038–1039
- Kali Yuga	4217–4218
Holocene calendar	11116
Igbo calendar	116–117
Iranian calendar	494–495
Islamic calendar	509–510
Japanese calendar	Eikyū 4 (永久４年)
Julian calendar	1116 MCXVI
Korean calendar	3449
Minguo calendar	796 before ROC 民前796年
Seleucid era	1427/1428 AG
Thai solar calendar	1658–1659

Year 1116 (MCXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• Baldwin I of Jerusalem undertakes an invasion of Egypt.
• The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, conquers the independent island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.^[1]

Americas

• The Aztecs leave Aztlán, searching for the site of what will eventually become Tenochtitlán (later Mexico City).

Europe

• July 15 – Doge Ordelafo Faliero of the Republic of Venice conquers the troops of Stephen II of Hungary who have arrived to relieve Zadar and the remaining towns of Dalmatia surrender to Venice.
• The Portuguese, under the leadership of countess Theresa take two Galician cities, Tui and Ourense. In reply, the sister of Countess Theresa, Queen Urraca of Leon and Castile, attacks Portugal.
• Almoravid troops conquer the Balearic islands whose Muslim king has been severely weakened by Pisan and Catalan raiders.^[2]

By topic

Arts and technology

• The modern book of separate pages stitched together is invented in China.
• Construction starts on the Chennakesava Temple in India.
• Aak music is introduced to the Korean court by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

Births

• Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (d. 1173)

Deaths

• February 3 – Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
• February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, an itinerant preacher, and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault (b. c. 1045)

References

1. Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" (PDF). Retrieved 17 January 2012.
2. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 83.