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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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In the year 1126
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.
ToolsThe first artesian well in Europe is drilled. In China, artesian wells are known before the common era.
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This article is about the year 1126.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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 | |
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| 1126 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1126 MCXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1879 |
| Armenian calendar | 575 ԹՎ ՇՀԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5876 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -718–-717 |
| Bengali calendar | 533 |
| Berber calendar | 2076 |
| English Regnal year | 26 Hen. 1 – 27 Hen. 1 |
| 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 | 1182–1183 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1048–1049 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4227–4228 |
| Holocene calendar | 11126 |
| Iranian calendar | 504–505 |
| Islamic calendar | 519–520 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Julian calendar | 1126 MCXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3459 |
| Minguo calendar | 786 before ROC 民前786年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1669 |
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Year 1126 (MCXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
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Asia
- 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.
- Two previously written Chinese pharmaceutical works, one by Shen Kuo and another by Su Shi, are combined into one written work.
- The rule of Emperor Huizong of Song ends in China.
- 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.
Europe
- Rutherglen becomes one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.
- Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne, is killed by upset peasants at a local thing. Sweden is without ruler, but Magnus the Strong claims sovereignty over Gothenland for the time being.
- Alfonso VII is crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.
- King Alfonso the Battler of Navarre and Aragon launches a raid into Granada.
- The Venetians occupy Cephalonia. Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos restores their trading privileges.
- Olegarius creates the community of knights known as the confraternity of Tarragona to combat the Andalusians in Catalonia.[1]
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Science
- Adelard of Bath translates Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.
Births
- Fan Chengda, Chinese poet, travel writer, and geographer (d. 1193)
- Averoes, Andalus 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)
- Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne (killed by upset peasants at the thing)
- Abbot Ekkehard of Aura
- Omar Khayyam, Persian poet and mathematician
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