1133

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1130 1131 1132 – 1133 – 1134 1135 1136

1133 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1133 in poetry

1133 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1133 MCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1886
Armenian calendar	582 ԹՎ ՇՁԲ
Assyrian calendar	5883
Bengali calendar	540
Berber calendar	2083
English Regnal year	33 Hen. 1 – 34 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1677
Burmese calendar	495
Byzantine calendar	6641–6642
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 3829 or 3769     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3830 or 3770
Coptic calendar	849–850
Discordian calendar	2299
Ethiopian calendar	1125–1126
Hebrew calendar	4893–4894
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1189–1190
- Shaka Samvat	1055–1056
- Kali Yuga	4234–4235
Holocene calendar	11133
Igbo calendar	133–134
Iranian calendar	511–512
Islamic calendar	527–528
Japanese calendar	Chōshō 2 (長承２年)
Julian calendar	1133 MCXXXIII
Korean calendar	3466
Minguo calendar	779 before ROC 民前779年
Seleucid era	1444/1445 AG
Thai solar calendar	1675–1676

Year 1133 (MCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Geoffrey of Monmouth produces the Historia Regum Britanniae.
• Durham Cathedral is completed.
• Construction of Exeter Cathedral is begun.
• June 4 – Lothair III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Innocent II.
• A papal bull grants Sardinia and half of Corsica to Pisa.
• At the battle of Fraga, the Castellan troops led by king Alfonso the Battler defeat the Almoravid army thanks to a timely intervention of a Norman crusader army from Tarragona led by Robert Burdet.^[1]
• Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in al-Andalus and pillages the country all the way to Cadiz.^[2]

Births

• March 5 – King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
• Hōnen, Japanese founder of Pure Land Buddhism (d. 1212)
• King Sigurd II of Norway (d. 1155)

Deaths

• February 19 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)
• December 18 – Hildebert, French writer

References

1. McGrank 1981.
2. Meynier 2010.

Sources

• McGrank, Lawrence (1981). "Norman crusaders in the Catalan reconquest: Robert Burdet and the principality of Tarragona, 1129-55". Journal of Medieval History 7 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(81)90036-1.

• Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518) (in French). Paris: La Découverte. p. 86. ISBN 978-2707152312.