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Year 1136 (MCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Africa

  • Béjaïa repeals a Genoan naval assault.

    • Europe

  • February 5 – Treaty of Durham: Stephen I of England concedes Cumberland to David I of Scotland.
  • The people of Novgorod rebel against the hereditary prince Vsevolod of Pskov and depose him.
  • Battle of Crug Mawr: Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeats the Normans.
  • Grimoald, duke of Bari, supported by the emperor, rebels against the king of Sicily Roger II.
  • In Russia the Novgorod Republic is established in the north west of the region which is one of the major succeeder's to the Kievan Rus' after 254 years.
  • Foundation of Melrose Abbey by King David I of Scotland

    • Arts and culture

  • The Saint Denis Basilica is completed in Paris in France.
  • Peter Abelard writes the Historia Calamitatum, detailing his relationship with Heloise.

    • Births

  • Amalric I of Jerusalem
  • William of Newburgh, English historian (d. 1198)

    • Deaths

  • April 15 – Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (b. 1094)
  • May 24 – Hugues de Payens, first Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1070)
  • November 15 – Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
  • November 21 – William de Corbeil, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • date unknown
  • Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi, Spanish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1070)
  • Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, Persian physician
  • Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, Welsh princess and rebel leader (b. 1097)

    • References

    1136 Wikipedia
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