1123

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1090s  1100s  1110s  – 1120s –  1130s  1140s  1150s
Years:	1120 1121 1122 – 1123 – 1124 1125 1126

1123 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1123 in poetry

1123 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1123 MCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1876
Armenian calendar	572 ԹՎ ՇՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	5873
Bengali calendar	530
Berber calendar	2073
English Regnal year	23 Hen. 1 – 24 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1667
Burmese calendar	485
Byzantine calendar	6631–6632
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3819 or 3759     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3820 or 3760
Coptic calendar	839–840
Discordian calendar	2289
Ethiopian calendar	1115–1116
Hebrew calendar	4883–4884
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1179–1180
- Shaka Samvat	1045–1046
- Kali Yuga	4224–4225
Holocene calendar	11123
Igbo calendar	123–124
Iranian calendar	501–502
Islamic calendar	516–517
Japanese calendar	Hōan 4 (保安４年)
Julian calendar	1123 MCXXIII
Korean calendar	3456
Minguo calendar	789 before ROC 民前789年
Seleucid era	1434/1435 AG
Thai solar calendar	1665–1666

Year 1123 (MCXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• August 9 – Failure of a Norman campaign in North Africa, the Norman troops are massacred near Mahdia at the battle of al-Dimas.^[1][2]

Asia

• February 25 – 5-year-old Emperor Sutoku succeeds his father Emperor Toba on the throne of Japan when the latter is forced to abdicate at the age of 21.
• May 29 – Battle of Yibneh: A Crusader force led by Eustace Grenier crushes a Fatimid army at Yibna.
• May 30 – The Venetian fleet defeats the Egyptian fleet off Ascalon.^[3]
• The Pactum Warmundi is established between the Republic of Venice and the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Europe

• First mention of the consuls of Bologna indicating that the city has become an independent comune of Italy.
• Siege of Deventer: Conflict between Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor and Lothair of Supplinburg, Duke of Saxony.
• In accordance with the decision of the First Council of the Lateran, the archbishop of Compostela, Diego Gelmírez, declares the Crusade in Iberia against the Andalusians.^[4]

By topic

Religion

• March 18 – First Council of the Lateran convenes in Rome; it confirms the Concordat of Worms (1122) and demands clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church.
• St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts") is founded in London; it will still be operating as a medical institution on its original site into the 21st century.
• Furness Abbey founded in the north-west of England by Stephen, Count of Boulogne, for the Order of Savigny; it will become the country's second wealthiest and most powerful Cistercian monastery.

Births

• Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (d. 1160)

Deaths

• August 29 – King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
• Emperor Taizu of Jin, chieftain of the Jurchen Wanyan tribe (b. 1068)
• Saint Peter of Pappacarbone

References

1. Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 56.
2. Johns, Jeremy (2002). Arabic administration in Norman Sicily: the royal dīwān. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81692-0.
3. "Venice - Adriatic Powerhouse". Pericles Press. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
4. Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5 37: 31–47 [43]. JSTOR 3679149.