Year 1134 (MCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Eastern Europe
Vsevolod Mstislavich of Novgorod defeats the Chuds and captures Tartu.
Yuri Dolgoruki founds the town of Skniatino.
Iziaslav II of Kiev becomes Prince of Vladimir and Volyn.
Viacheslav of Kiev becomes Prince of Turov.
Mediterranean
Ermengarde becomes viscountess of Narbonne.
Narbonne is seized by Alphonse I of Toulouse.
Castillan defeat at the battle of Fraga against Muslim troops: Alfonso I of Aragon is killed, and succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.
Roger II of Sicily defeats a revolt in Naples.
Called by Olegarius, the bishop of Tarragona, the knights Templar establish their first stronghold in Catalonia.
Scandinavia
Battle of Färlev: Magnus IV of Norway defeats Harald IV Gille of Norway.
Harald Kesja and Magnus the Strong are defeated at the Battle of Fotevik.
Eric II becomes King of Denmark.
The House of Brandenburg is founded when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.
Western Europe
Aed mac Domnaill becomes King of Ui Failghe.
Much of Chartres, France, is destroyed by fire.
Henry of Lausanne is sentenced to imprisonment by Pope Innocent II.
The Zeeland archipelago is created by a massive storm in the North Sea.
Hermann III of Baden marries Bertha of Lorraine.
Ulrich I becomes Duke of Carinthia.
May 13 – The Saint-Denis basilica, near Paris, is damaged by a fire. This will give the opportunity to the abbot Suger to rebuild it in a new style, which will open the Gothic period of architecture.
University of Salamanca established in the Kingdom of León.
Abdul Qadir Jilani becomes principal of the Hanbali school in Baghdad.
The Japanese classic text Uchigikishu is written.
Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia travel throughout France, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States.
Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.
Saint Malachy becomes Archbishop of Armagh.
The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.
The Augustinian Runcorn Priory is transferred to Norton Priory.
Buckfastleigh Abbey is refounded.
Aelred of Hexham enters the monastery at Rievaulx Abbey.
St. Stephen Harding becomes abbott of Cîteaux Abbey.
Saint Hugh of Grenoble is canonized by Innocent II.
The Cathedral of St. Petri in Schleswig is completed.
The Abbey of St. Jacob is founded in Würzburg.
Evermode of Ratzeburg becomes Abbot of Gottesgnaden.
The Humiliati retreat to a monastery in Milan.
Leo Styppes becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
June 1 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
King Sancho III of Castile (d. 1158)
King Sverker I of Sweden (approximate date; d. 1156)
Raymond V of Toulouse (d. 1194)
Lord Basava, founder of the Lingayat sect
March 28 – Saint Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order
June 4 – Magnus the Strong, Swedish usurper
June 6 – Saint Norbert, founder of the Norbertine order of canons
June 25 – King Niels of Denmark
August 13 – Piroska of Hungary, wife of John II Comnenus
September – Alfonso I of Aragon
October 23 – Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath
date unknown
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (b. 1100)
Hugh II of Le Puiset, crusader knight and Count of Jaffa (b. 1100)
Emperor Taizong of Jin
Patriarch John IX of Constantinople
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