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1107

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Year 1107 (MCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • August 9 – Emperor Toba succeeds to the throne of Japan aged 4.
  • Chinese money is printed in 3 colours to stymie counterfeiting.
  • The highly cultivated emperor of China, Emperor Huizong of Song, writes his Treatise on Tea.
  • Approximate date – Fadl ibn Rabi'ah is expelled from Syria.

    • Europe

  • January 8 – Alexander I becomes King of the Scots on the death of his brother Edgar.
  • August 11 – Investiture Controversy in England is resolved by reconciliation of King Henry and Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury and the mass consecration of bishops by Anselm at the royal Palace of Westminster: William Giffard to Winchester, Roger to Salisbury, Reynelm to Hereford, William Warelwast to Exeter and Urban to Llandaff. Roger of Salisbury is also appointed Justiciar of England this year.
  • October – The army of Bohemond of Tarente lands in Dyrrachium to try to conquer the Byzantine Empire.
  • Autumn – The Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader sails to England on the first stage of the Norwegian Crusade to Palestine, the first European king to support the Crusaders.
  • Saracen pirates raid the Benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands .
  • The city of Florence starts expanding its control over the surrounding countryside and takes the city of Monte Orlandi.

    • Births

  • June 12 – Emperor Gaozong of Song of China (d. 1187)
  • Henry II of Austria (d. 1177)

    • Deaths

  • January 8 – Edgar, King of Scotland (b. 1074)
  • August 9 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
  • Robert Fitzhamon, Lord of Gloucester
  • Kilij Arslan I, Sultan of Rüm
  • Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
  • Cheng Yi, Song Dynasty Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher (b. 1033)
  • Mi Fu, Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (b. 1051)

    • References

    1107 Wikipedia
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