1134

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1131 1132 1133 – 1134 – 1135 1136 1137

1134 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1134 in poetry

1134 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1134 MCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1887
Armenian calendar	583 ԹՎ ՇՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	5884
Bengali calendar	541
Berber calendar	2084
English Regnal year	34 Hen. 1 – 35 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1678
Burmese calendar	496
Byzantine calendar	6642–6643
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3830 or 3770     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3831 or 3771
Coptic calendar	850–851
Discordian calendar	2300
Ethiopian calendar	1126–1127
Hebrew calendar	4894–4895
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1190–1191
- Shaka Samvat	1056–1057
- Kali Yuga	4235–4236
Holocene calendar	11134
Igbo calendar	134–135
Iranian calendar	512–513
Islamic calendar	528–529
Japanese calendar	Chōshō 3 (長承３年)
Julian calendar	1134 MCXXXIV
Korean calendar	3467
Minguo calendar	778 before ROC 民前778年
Seleucid era	1445/1446 AG
Thai solar calendar	1676–1677

Year 1134 (MCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• Hugh II of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa, revolts against King Fulk of Jerusalem.
• Mas'ud becomes sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
• The Kangguo Era begins in the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
• Wu Ge, the Chinese Song Dynasty Deputy Transport Commissioner of Zhejiang, has paddle wheel warships constructed with a total of nine wheels and others with thirteen wheels.

Europe

Eastern Europe

• Vsevolod Mstislavich of Novgorod defeats the Chuds and captures Tartu.
• Yuri Dolgoruki founds the town of Skniatino.
• Iziaslav II of Kiev becomes Prince of Vladimir and Volyn.
• Viacheslav of Kiev becomes Prince of Turov.

Mediterranean

• Ermengarde becomes viscountess of Narbonne.
• Narbonne is seized by Alphonse I of Toulouse.
• Castillan defeat at the battle of Fraga against Muslim troops: Alfonso I of Aragon is killed, and succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.
• Roger II of Sicily defeats a revolt in Naples.
• Called by Olegarius, the bishop of Tarragona, the knights Templar establish their first stronghold in Catalonia.^[1]

Scandinavia

• Battle of Färlev: Magnus IV of Norway defeats Harald IV Gille of Norway.
• Harald Kesja and Magnus the Strong are defeated at the Battle of Fotevik.
• Eric II becomes King of Denmark.
• The House of Brandenburg is founded when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.

Western Europe

• Aed mac Domnaill becomes King of Ui Failghe.
• Much of Chartres, France, is destroyed by fire.
• Henry of Lausanne is sentenced to imprisonment by Pope Innocent II.
• The Zeeland archipelago is created by a massive storm in the North Sea.
• Hermann III of Baden marries Bertha of Lorraine.
• Ulrich I becomes Duke of Carinthia.

By topic

Culture

• May 13 – the Saint-Denis basilica, near Paris, is damaged by a fire. This will give the opportunity to the abbot Suger to rebuild it in a new style, which will open the Gothic period of architecture.
• Abdul Qadir Jilani becomes principal of the Hanbali school in Baghdad.
• The Japanese classic text Uchigikishu is written.
• Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia travel throughout France, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States.

Religion

• Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.
• Saint Malachy becomes Archbishop of Armagh.
• The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.
• The Augustinian Runcorn Priory is transferred to Norton Priory.
• Buckfastleigh Abbey is refounded.
• Aelred of Hexham enters the monastery at Rievaulx Abbey.
• St. Stephen Harding becomes abbott of Cîteaux Abbey.
• Saint Hugh of Grenoble is canonized by Innocent II.
• The Cathedral of St. Petri in Schleswig is completed.
• The Abbey of St. Jacob is founded in Würzburg.
• Evermode of Ratzeburg becomes Abbot of Gottesgnaden.
• The Humiliati retreat to a monastery in Milan.
• Leo Styppes becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• June 1 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
• King Sancho III of Castile (d. 1158)
• King Sverker I of Sweden (approximate date; d. 1156)
• Raymond V of Toulouse (d. 1194)
• Lord Basava, founder of the Lingayat sect

Deaths

• February 10 – Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
• March 28 – Saint Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order
• June 4 – Magnus the Strong, Swedish usurper
• June 6 – Saint Norbert, founder of the Norbertine order of canons
• June 25 – King Niels of Denmark
• August 13 – Piroska of Hungary, wife of John II Comnenus
• September – Alfonso I of Aragon
• October 23 – Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath
• date unknown
  • Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (b. 1100)
  • Hugh II of Le Puiset, crusader knight and Count of Jaffa (b. 1100)
  • Emperor Taizong of Jin
  • Patriarch John IX of Constantinople

References

1. Fletcher 1987.

Sources

• Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5 37: 31–47. JSTOR 3679149.