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France's Philippe I dies at Melun the night of July 29 at age 56 after a reign of nearly 48 years. His extreme obesity has rendered him inactive, and he is succeeded by his 27-year-old son, who has administered the kingdom since 1104 and will reign until 1137 as Louis VI. The new king faces insurrections from feudal brigands and rebellious barons, and it will take him 24 years to root out the robber barons who depend for their livelihood on plundering travelers en route to and from Paris.
Bohemond of Otranto lands a large army at Avlona in a challenge to the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus. Bohemond married the French princess Constance in the spring of 1106, having met with the pope at Rome the previous September, and he hopes to expand his territories, which extend from Apulia to Antioch, but Alexius defeats Bohemond at Durazzo in what later will be Albania and makes him a vassal, giving him Antioch and other Greek cities in return for ending hostilities.
Regents for the Japanese boy emperor Toba engage samurai Masamori Taira to eliminate a member of the Minamoto family who has occupied an area along the Inland Sea. Unaccustomed to fighting in coastal areas, the Minamoto prove no match for Taira, who is allowed by the emperor to settle with his family in western Japan, where they can enrich themselves in the China trade and increase their power.
Spanish Christians assassinate the diplomat-statesman Solomon ibn Ferruziel May 3 as he is returning to Toledo after an important mission to Aragon. A nephew of the physician and royal adviser Joseph ibn Ferruziel, who is known as Cidellus, Solomon is eulogized by Navarre-born poet-philosopher Judah (Yehuda ben Shemuel) ha-Levi, 33, who had composed a long poem to be read at his reception. The official elegy ends with a curse against the "Daughter of Edom," meaning Christianity (see literature 1140).
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 11th century – 12th century – 13th century |
| Decades: | 1070s 1080s 1090s – 1100s – 1110s 1120s 1130s |
| Years: | 1105 1106 1107 – 1108 – 1109 1110 1111 |
| 1108 by topic | |
| Politics | |
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| 1108 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1108 MCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1861 |
| Armenian calendar | 557 ԹՎ ՇԾԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5858 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -736–-735 |
| Bengali calendar | 515 |
| Berber calendar | 2058 |
| English Regnal year | 8 Hen. 1 – 9 Hen. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1652 |
| Burmese calendar | 470 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6616–6617 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁亥年十一月十七日 (3744/3804-11-17) — to —
戊子年十一月廿七日(3745/3805-11-27) |
| Coptic calendar | 824–825 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1100–1101 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4868–4869 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1164–1165 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1030–1031 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4209–4210 |
| Holocene calendar | 11108 |
| Iranian calendar | 486–487 |
| Islamic calendar | 501–502 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3441 |
| Minguo calendar | 804 before ROC 民前804年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1651 |
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Year 1108 (MCVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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