1135

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1132 1133 1134 – 1135 – 1136 1137 1138

1135 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1135 in poetry

1135 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1135 MCXXXV
Ab urbe condita	1888
Armenian calendar	584 ԹՎ ՇՁԴ
Assyrian calendar	5885
Bengali calendar	542
Berber calendar	2085
English Regnal year	35 Hen. 1 – 1 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar	1679
Burmese calendar	497
Byzantine calendar	6643–6644
Chinese calendar	甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3831 or 3771     — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3832 or 3772
Coptic calendar	851–852
Discordian calendar	2301
Ethiopian calendar	1127–1128
Hebrew calendar	4895–4896
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1191–1192
- Shaka Samvat	1057–1058
- Kali Yuga	4236–4237
Holocene calendar	11135
Igbo calendar	135–136
Iranian calendar	513–514
Islamic calendar	529–530
Japanese calendar	Chōshō 4 / Hōen 1 (保延元年)
Julian calendar	1135 MCXXXV
Korean calendar	3468
Minguo calendar	777 before ROC 民前777年
Seleucid era	1446/1447 AG
Thai solar calendar	1677–1678

Year 1135 (MCXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• The troops of Roger II of Sicily take Djerba.^[1]
• The Hammadid emirate launches an assault against Mahdia in Ifriqiya.^[2]

Asia

• Song dynasty Chinese general Yue Fei defeats the rebel forces of Yang Yao by entangling his swift paddle-wheel ships with rotten logs and other debris precariously placed in the river. Yue Fei's forces easily board their ships and win a victory.
• The domination of Baghdad by the Seljuk Turks ends.

The Near East in 1135, showing the four Crusader states and their Muslim neighbors in shades of green.

Europe

• May 26 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile is crowned in the Cathedral of Leon as Imperator totius Hispaniae, "Emperor of All the Spains".
• 10 August - Battle at Konungahella
• December 1 – Stephen succeeds his uncle Henry I as king of England. Matilda, daughter of Henry I and widow of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, opposes Stephen and claims the throne as her own.
• The first records of the Manor of Cramlington come into existence.
• A fire in London seriously damages St Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge on Pentecost (Sunday, May 26).
• The Pisans, in the service of the Holy See, sack the city of Amalfi.
• The Republic of Florence keeps expending its control over its surrounding countryside and conquers the neighboring city of Montebuoni.
• A Moorish fleet raids the Catalan port-town of Elna.^[3]

By topic

Religion

• January – Byland Abbey is founded.
• The Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary and St. Chad is founded by Roger de Clinton, bishop of Coventry (1129–48).

Births

• Petronila of Aragon, daughter of Ramiro II of Aragon (d. 1174)
• Peter of Blois, French poet and diplomat (d. 1203)
• Joachim of Fiore, Italian mystic and theologian (d. 1201)
• Sharafeddin Tusi, Persian mathematician (d. 1213)
• William of Newburgh, English historian and monk (d. 1198)

Deaths

• June 4 – Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
• August 29 – Al-Mustarshid, Caliph of Baghdad
• December 1 – King Henry I of England
• Milarepa, Tibetan yogi and poet (b. 1052)
• Yuanwu Keqin, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1063)

References

1. Picard 1997.
2. Johns 2002.
3. McGrank 1981.

Sources

• Johns, Jeremy (2002). Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily: The Royal Diwan. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0521816922.

• 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.

• Picard, Christophe (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'occident au Moyen Âge, VIIIe-XIIIe siècle (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2130488101.