1122

For the manga series, see 1122: For a Happy Marriage.

Year 1122 (MCXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

1122 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1122 MCXXII
Ab urbe condita	1875
Armenian calendar	571 ԹՎ ՇՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	5872
Balinese saka calendar	1043–1044
Bengali calendar	528–529
Berber calendar	2072
English Regnal year	22 Hen. 1 – 23 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1666
Burmese calendar	484
Byzantine calendar	6630–6631
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3819 or 3612     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3820 or 3613
Coptic calendar	838–839
Discordian calendar	2288
Ethiopian calendar	1114–1115
Hebrew calendar	4882–4883
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1178–1179
- Shaka Samvat	1043–1044
- Kali Yuga	4222–4223
Holocene calendar	11122
Igbo calendar	122–123
Iranian calendar	500–501
Islamic calendar	515–516
Japanese calendar	Hōan 3 (保安３年)
Javanese calendar	1027–1028
Julian calendar	1122 MCXXII
Korean calendar	3455
Minguo calendar	790 before ROC 民前790年
Nanakshahi calendar	−346
Seleucid era	1433/1434 AG
Thai solar calendar	1664–1665
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Iron-Ox) 1248 or 867 or 95     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Water-Tiger) 1249 or 868 or 96

Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1111–1125) ends his conflict with the Church this year

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Battle of Beroia: Emperor John II Komnenos transfers the Byzantine field army from Asia Minor (where it has been engaged against the Seljuk Turks) to the Balkans. The Pechenegs who have set up their camp (defended by a circular formation of wagons) near Beroia (modern Bulgaria) are defeated. John orders the Varangian Guard (some 480 men), the elite Palace Guard to hack their way through the Pecheneg circle of wagons, causing a general rout in their camp. Pecheneg survivors are taken captive and enlisted into the Byzantine army.^[1]

Egypt

• February 13 – Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi is formally proclaimed vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate by Caliph al-Amir.^[2]

Levant

• September 13 – Count Joscelin I and Waleran of Le Puiset are taken prisoner by Turkish forces led by Belek Ghazi near Saruj in northern Syria. Belek offers Joscelin liberty in return for the cession of Edessa. He refuses to accept these terms; Joscelin and Waleran and 60 other Crusaders are taken to the castle at Kharput.^[3]

Europe

• August 8 – A Venetian fleet under Doge Domenico Michiel with well over a hundred ships sets sail from Venice, carrying an army of around 15,000 men and siege-material on the Venetian Crusade. The fleet departs for Palestine – but the Venetians pause to attack Corfu (this in retaliation for the refusal of John II to renew exclusive trading privileges). For six months, throughout the winter of 1122–23, the Venetians lay siege to the Byzantine island.^[4]
• King Alfonso the Battler of Aragon creates the lay community of knights known as the Confraternity of Belchite. It is the first local attempt to imitate the Order of the Knights Templar created in Palestine.^[5]
• The Almoravid fleet attacks Sicily to suppress the Italo-Norman raiders.^{[6][page needed]} The same year the Muslim population of Malta rebels against the Normans.^{[citation needed]}

Eurasia

• Siege of Tbilisi: The Georgians led by King David IV ('the Builder') re-conquer the city of Tbilisi from the Emirate of Tbilisi after a 1-year siege. David makes it his capital and unifies the Georgian State.^[7]

By topic

Religion

• September 23 – The Concordat of Worms: Emperor Henry V recognizes freedom of election of the clergy and promises to restore all Church property. This brings an end to the power struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, known as the Investiture Controversy. In the aftermath, Cappenberg Abbey is founded by Count Gottfried II for the new order of Premonstratensians.^{[citation needed]}

Births

• February 24 – Wanyan Liang, Chinese emperor (d. 1161)^[8]
• date unknown
  • Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1190)^[9]
  • Fujiwara no Kiyoko, Japanese empress consort (d. 1182)^[10]
  • Ibn Hubal, Arab physician and scientist (approximate date)^[11]
  • Isaac ben Abba Mari, French Jewish rabbi (approximate date)^{[citation needed]}
  • Jayavarman VII, Cambodian ruler of the Khmer Empire (d. 1218))^[12]

Deaths

• January 18 – Christina Ingesdotter, Kievan princess^[13]
• March 12 – Giso IV, count of Gudensberg (b. 1070)^{[citation needed]}
• August 9 – Cuno of Praeneste, German cardinal^{[citation needed]}
• September 9 – Al-Hariri of Basra, Abbasid poet (b. 1054)^[14]
• September 16 – Vitalis of Savigny, Catholic French Saint and itinerant preacher (b. 1060)^[15]
• October 20 – Ralph d'Escures, English archbishop^[16]
• November 8 – Ilghazi, Artuqid ruler of Mardin^[17]
• November 28 – Ottokar II, margrave of Styria^{[citation needed]}
• December 3 – Berthold III, duke of Zähringen^[18]
• December 4 – Henry III, duke of Carinthia^{[citation needed]}
• date unknown
  • Al-Baghawi, Persian hadith scholar and writer^{[citation needed]}
  • Alberada of Buonalbergo, duchess of Apulia^{[citation needed]}
  • John of Tours, Bishop of Wells^[19]
  • Sybilla of Normandy, queen of Scotland^[20]
  • Yejong, Korean ruler of Goryeo (b. 1079)^[21]
  • Wang Cha-ji, Korean general (b. 1066)^{[citation needed]}