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Year 1133 (MCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events

  • Geoffrey of Monmouth produces the Historia Regum Britanniae.
  • Construction of the Durham Cathedral is completed in England.
  • Construction of Exeter Cathedral begins in England.
  • June 4 – Lothair III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Innocent II.
  • A papal bull grants Sardinia and half of Corsica to Pisa.
  • At the battle of Fraga, the Castellan troops led by king Alfonso the Battler defeat the Almoravid army thanks to a timely intervention of a Norman crusader army from Tarragona led by Robert Burdet.
  • Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona launches a raid against Almoravid-held territories in al-Andalus and pillages the country all the way to Cadiz.

    • Births

  • March 5 – King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
  • Hōnen, Japanese founder of Pure Land Buddhism (d. 1212)
  • King Sigurd II of Norway (d. 1155)

    • Deaths

  • February 19 or 1123 – Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)
  • December 18 – Hildebert, French writer

    • References

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