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Year 1128 (MCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Champa invades Vietnam.
  • Jin–Song wars: Song Dynasty China establishes a temporary capital at Yangzhou while the government retreats south after the Jurchen Jin Dynasty captured their previous capital of Kaifeng in the Jingkang Incident.

    • Europe

  • June 17 – Geoffrey of Anjou marries Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England.
  • June 24 – Battle of São Mamede: Afonso I of Portugal (then Count of Portugal) defeats his mother, Teresa of León, and gains control of the county, which thus becomes de facto independent.
  • July 27 – The city of Bruges is founded.
  • King Louis VI of France agrees to the accession of Thierry of Alsace as Count of Flanders.
  • Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos defeats the Magyars near Haram on the Danube River.
  • Foundation of Kelso Abbey by David I of Scotland

    • Religion

  • Pope Honorius II recognizes and confirms the Order of the Knights Templar. Bernard of Clairvaux codifies the rule of the order.
  • Holyrood Abbey is founded in Edinburgh by David I, King of Scotland.

    • Births

  • Absalon, Danish archbishop and statesman
  • Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet (approximate date; d. 1202)
  • Archbishop William of Tyre, historian of the Crusades (approximate date; d. 1186)

    • Deaths

  • July 28 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
  • Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham

    • References

    1128 Wikipedia
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