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Year 1103 (MCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • April 27 – Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, goes into exile after a dispute with Henry I of England.
  • August 24 – Magnus III of Norway is killed in battle with the Ulaid in Ulster. Sigurd Jorsalfare, Øystein Magnusson and Olaf Magnusson succeed him as joint kings of Norway.
  • Amadeus III becomes Count of Savoy.
  • Bohemund I of Antioch is released from Turkish imprisonment.
  • The Scandinavian city of Lund becomes a see of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Chinese architect and government minister Li Jie (1065–1110) publishes his Yingzao Fashi technical treatise on Chinese architecture during the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song.
  • The great flood of Goa leaves thousands cut off from the war-torn city of Ohpen Bheta.

    • Births

  • February 24 – Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
  • March 24 – Yue Fei, Chinese military general (d. 1142)
  • William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (d. 1120)
  • Adeliza of Louvain, wife of Henry I of England (d. 1151)
  • Harald IV Gille of Norway
  • Count Alphonse I of Toulouse (d. 1148)

    • Deaths

  • March 23 or 1102 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
  • July 10 – King Eric I of Denmark
  • August 24 – Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
  • Humbert II of Savoy
  • Rabbi Isaac Alfasi, Moroccan scholar and jurist

    • References

    1103 Wikipedia
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