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Year 1117 (MCXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Conflict between the de facto independent republics of Mahdia and Gabes in Ifriqiya. Madhia is supported by the Zirid dynasty while Gabes receives the aid of the Roger I of Sicily.

    • Asia

  • Arslan-Shah of Ghazna loses the Battle of Ghazni.
  • Pelusium is razed by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
  • Miidera and the sohei of Enryakuji attack Nara, Japan.

    • Europe

  • Borivoj II of Bohemia becomes prince in place of Vladislav I of Bohemia.
  • The people of Santiago de Compostela (present-day Spain) try to burn their prelate in his palace, along with the queen.
  • Iceland abolishes slavery.
  • Short-lived Almoravid reconquest of Coimbra (Portugal).
  • Stephen II of Hungary regains Dalmatia from the Republic of Venice while the Venetians are on a naval expedition, Doge Ordelafo Faliero dying in battle near Zadar; Domenico Michele, elected Doge to succeed him, reconquers the territory and agrees a 5-year truce.

    • Education

  • May 3 – Merton Priory (near London) is consecrated.

    • Technology

  • The earliest use of a compass for navigational purposes is recorded.
  • 1116/17 (AH 510; possible date) – Old Bridge, Hasankeyf, over the Tigris in Turkey, is built by the Artuqids; its central arch is one of (or perhaps the) longest in the world at this time.

    • Births

  • Humphrey II of Toron, Constable of Jerusalem

    • Deaths

  • December 9 – Gertrude of Brunswick, Markgräfin of Meißen
  • Anselm of Laon, French theologian
  • Ivo of Chartres, French canon lawyer (b. 1040)
  • Bertrade de Montfort, wife of Fulk IV of Anjou and Philip I of France
  • Li Zhiyi, Chinese poet
  • Ỷ Lan, Vietnamese Empress Regent

    • References

    1117 Wikipedia
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