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Year 1125 (MCXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • June 11 – Battle of Azaz: The Crusaders defeat the Seljuk Turks.
  • November – Jin–Song wars: The Jurchens of the Jin dynasty declare war on the Song Dynasty.

    • Europe

  • May 23 – Lothair of Saxony becomes King of Germany on the death of Henry V.
  • War ends between Toulouse and Provence.
  • Nassau Castle is built.
  • Florence conquers the neighboring independent republic of Fiesole.
  • King Inge the Younger is murdered in Vreta Abbey, Östergötland, instigated by his wife Ulfhild. Her cousin Magnus the Strong proclaims himself ruler of Götaland, whereas Ragnvald Knaphövde, in opposition to him, proclaims himself king of Sweden in Svealand.
  • First mention of the consuls of Siena indicating that the city has become an independent commune.
  • The Venetians pillage Rhodes, ravage Samos and Lesbos, and occupy Chios.
  • Saracen pirates raid the city of Antibes in Provence and the benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands.
  • Creation of the first fair in Portugal in Ponte de Lima, it is an early sign of the commercialization and economic development of a still backward and self-contained region.
  • Castellan raid in Andalusia led by king Alfonso the Battler.

    • Arts

  • Albert of Aix begins his Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis.

    • Education

  • Reading School founded.

    • Religion

  • A collection of Zen Buddhist koans is compiled in the Chinese Blue Cliff Record.

    • Births

  • Lu You, Chinese poet (d. 1210)
  • Renaud de Courtenay, Anglo-Norman nobleman (d. 1194)

    • Deaths

  • January 24 – King David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
  • April 12 – Vladislaus I, Duke of Bohemia
  • May 19 – Vladimir II Monomakh, Grand Duke of Kiev
  • May 23 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
  • September 27 – Richeza of Berg, Duchess of Bohemia (b.c. 1095)
  • October 21 – Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian chronicler
  • "date unknown"
  • Eustace III of Boulogne
  • Inge the Younger, king of Sweden since 1110
  • Irnerius, teacher at Bologna

    • References

    1125 Wikipedia
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