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Year 1131 (MCXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Asia

  • Fulk of Anjou and Melisende become King and Queen of Jerusalem.

    • Europe

  • Ramon Berenguer IV becomes Count of Barcelona.
  • Between 1131 and 1136 – Theotokos of Vladimir arrives in Kiev.
  • The knights Templar found their first stronghold in the kingdom of Aragon.

    • Arts and culture

  • Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in China (completed in 1162).

    • Religion

  • May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded.
  • Council of Rheims.
  • Alberich becomes Archdeacon of Reims.

    • Births

  • January 14 – King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)

    • Deaths

  • January 7 – Duke Canute Lavard of Schleswig and Holstein and ruler of the Obotrite confederation, saint (b. 1096)
  • April 30 – Saint Adjutor
  • August 21 – King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
  • December 4 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
  • Alger of Liège, French monk at Cluny (b. 1055)
  • Bohemund II of Antioch (b. 1108)
  • Gaston IV of Béarn
  • Joscelin I, Count of Edessa
  • Meng, Chinese empress regent
  • Peter the Hermit, French priest and crusader
  • Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (b. 1082)
  • King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)

    • References

    1131 Wikipedia
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