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1119

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Year 1119 (MCXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • June 28 – Battle of Ager Sanguinis: Ilghazi, the ruler of Aleppo, wipes out a Crusader army from the Principality of Antioch.
  • August 14 – Battle of Hab: Baldwin II of Jerusalem's Crusaders defeat Ilghazi's army, saving Antioch.
  • Europe

  • August 20 – Battle of Bremule: Henry I of England routs Louis VI.
  • September 19 – Severe earthquake in Gloucestershire & Warwickshire, England.
  • Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg (Middlesbrough) to Whitby.
  • Religion

  • February 2 – Pope Callixtus II succeeds Pope Gelasius II as the 162nd pope.
  • Knights Templar Founded by Hugh de Payns.
  • Councils of Toulouse and Reims.
  • The archbishop of Tarragona, Oleguer Bonestruga, very successfully preaches a Crusade against the Moors in Catalonia.
  • In Toulouse, condemnation by the Church of the Petrobrusian heresy.
  • Technology

  • In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese author Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.
  • Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.
  • Births

  • February 28 – Emperor Xizong of Jin, third ruler of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty (d. 1150)
  • July 7 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
  • Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1176)
  • Deaths

  • January 29 – Pope Gelasius II
  • July 17 – Baldwin VII, Count of Flanders
  • Muirchertach Ua Briain, High King of Ireland* Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
  • Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch
  • Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick
  • References

    1119 Wikipedia