1127

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1090s  1100s  1110s  – 1120s –  1130s  1140s  1150s
Years:	1124 1125 1126 – 1127 – 1128 1129 1130

1127 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1127 in poetry

1127 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1127 MCXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1880
Armenian calendar	576 ԹՎ ՇՀԶ
Assyrian calendar	5877
Bengali calendar	534
Berber calendar	2077
English Regnal year	27 Hen. 1 – 28 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1671
Burmese calendar	489
Byzantine calendar	6635–6636
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3823 or 3763     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3824 or 3764
Coptic calendar	843–844
Discordian calendar	2293
Ethiopian calendar	1119–1120
Hebrew calendar	4887–4888
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1183–1184
- Shaka Samvat	1049–1050
- Kali Yuga	4228–4229
Holocene calendar	11127
Igbo calendar	127–128
Iranian calendar	505–506
Islamic calendar	520–521
Japanese calendar	Daiji 2 (大治２年)
Julian calendar	1127 MCXXVII
Korean calendar	3460
Minguo calendar	785 before ROC 民前785年
Seleucid era	1438/1439 AG
Thai solar calendar	1669–1670

The Kalyan minaret

Year 1127 (MCXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Estimation: Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Kaifeng, capital of China.

By area

Asia

• January 9 – Jurchen forces sack the Song Chinese capital of Kaifeng during the Jingkang Incident of the Jin–Song wars, and begin more than a century of political division between northern and southern China.

Europe

• Conrad III establishes the Hohenstaufen dynasty when he is crowned anti-king to the Holy Roman Emperor, Lothair III.
• The first coalition of the Norman princes against Roger II of Sicily is formed. The same year, Roger regains control over Malta after a rebellion.^[1] To guaranty the security of the seas, the king also establishes a pact with the maritime republic of Savona,^[2] probably following an Almoravid raid against his realm.^[3]
• Count Charles the Good of Flanders is assassinated.
• First mention of the consuls in Brescia, indicating that the city has become an independent commune.
• The commune of Milan conquers the neighboring city of Como.

By topic

Arts

• The minaret of Kalyan is completed in Bukhara (present day Uzbekistan).

Births

• October 18 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1191)
• November 27 – Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194)
• Constance of Antioch (d. 1163), the Princess regnant of the principality of Antioch
• Yang Wanli, Chinese poet (d. 1206)

Deaths

• probable – Fulcher of Chartres, French chronicler (b. c. 1059)
• Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin, abbot of Clonmacnoise ^[4]

References

1. Abulafia, David (1985). The Norman kingdom of Africa and the Norman expeditions to Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-416-6.
2. Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" (PDF). Retrieved 17 January 2012.
3. Johns, Jeremy (2002). Arabic administration in Norman Sicily: the royal dīwān. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81692-0.
4. Annals of the Four Masters. Ireland: Corpus of Electronic Texts (UCC), Annal M1127.1. 1127.