1126

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political events

The new German king Lothair II makes Heinrich der Stolze (the Proud), 18, duke of Bavaria to succeed his late father, who has just died. A grandson of the late Bavarian duke Azzo d'Este IV (Guelph IV), Heinrich will marry Lothair's daughter Gertrude in May of next year (see 1137).

The Peace of 1126 ends hostilities between John II Comnenus and the Hungarians and Venetians. The Byzantine emperor secures Branicova on the Danube but is forced by Venice to renew the republic's exclusive commercial privileges.

Castile and León's queen Urraca dies after a 19-year reign and is succeeded by her son, who will reign until 1157 as Alfonso VII.

Melissande succeeds to the throne of Jerusalem upon the death of Baldwin; eldest daughter of the crusader king Baldwin II and his Armenian wife, Morphia, she marries Fulke V of Anjou, 24, with whom she will reign jointly beginning in 1131.

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Astronomy

Adelard of Bath translates Astronomical Tables by Al-Khwarizmi from the Arabic. About this time he also translates Al-Khwarizmi's Liber ysagogarum alchorismi ("introduction of algorism"), a work about arithmetic. See also 1111 Astronomy; 1142 Mathematics.

The first artesian well in Europe is drilled. In China, artesian wells are known before the common era.

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1090s  1100s  1110s  – 1120s –  1130s  1140s  1150s
Years:	1123 1124 1125 – 1126 – 1127 1128 1129

1126 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

Art and literature

1126 in poetry v • d • e

1126 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1126 MCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1879
Armenian calendar	575 ԹՎ ՇՀԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-718 – -717
Berber calendar	2076
Buddhist calendar	1670
Burmese calendar	488
Byzantine calendar	6634 – 6635
Chinese calendar	乙巳年十二月初六日 (3762/3822-12-6) — to — 丙午年閏十一月十六日 (3763/3823-intercalary 11-16)
Coptic calendar	842 – 843
Ethiopian calendar	1118 – 1119
Hebrew calendar	4886 – 4887
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1181 – 1182
- Shaka Samvat	1048 – 1049
- Kali Yuga	4227 – 4228
Holocene calendar	11126
Iranian calendar	504 – 505
Islamic calendar	519 – 520
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3459
Thai solar calendar	1669
v • d • e

Events

• January–March—In Song Dynasty China, scholars and farmers demonstrate around Kaifeng for the restoration of a probity military official, Li Gang (李綱). Small conflicts erupt between the protestors and the Government.
• Rutherglen becomes one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.
• The Jin Dynasty is established in the north of China, following the Song Dynasty's loss at the Huang He River valley. Remnants of the court flee south, including much of the populace and communities such as the Kaifeng Jews.
• The rule of Emperor Huizong of Song ends in China.
• Alfonso VII is crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.
• King Alfonso the Battler of Navarre and Aragon launches a raid into Granada.
• Adelard of Bath translates Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.
• Two previously written Chinese pharmaceutical works, one by Shen Kuo and another by Su Shi, are combined into one written work.
• The Venetians occupy Cephalonia. Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos restores their trading privileges.

Births

• Fan Chengda, Chinese poet, travel writer, and geographer (d. 1193)
• Averoes, Andalusian judge and physician
• Eynion de Tilston Lord of the Manor of Tilston

Deaths

• February 10—William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (b. 1071)
• March 8—Queen Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
• October 1—Morphia of Melitene, Queen of Jerusalem
• Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (b. 1052)
• Abbot Ekkehard of Aura
• Omar Khayyam, Persian poet and mathematician

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