1132

Year 1132 (MCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

1132 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1132 MCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	1885
Armenian calendar	581 ԹՎ ՇՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	5882
Balinese saka calendar	1053–1054
Bengali calendar	538–539
Berber calendar	2082
English Regnal year	32 Hen. 1 – 33 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1676
Burmese calendar	494
Byzantine calendar	6640–6641
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3829 or 3622     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3830 or 3623
Coptic calendar	848–849
Discordian calendar	2298
Ethiopian calendar	1124–1125
Hebrew calendar	4892–4893
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1188–1189
- Shaka Samvat	1053–1054
- Kali Yuga	4232–4233
Holocene calendar	11132
Igbo calendar	132–133
Iranian calendar	510–511
Islamic calendar	526–527
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 2 / Chōshō 1 (長承元年)
Javanese calendar	1038–1039
Julian calendar	1132 MCXXXII
Korean calendar	3465
Minguo calendar	780 before ROC 民前780年
Nanakshahi calendar	−336
Seleucid era	1443/1444 AG
Thai solar calendar	1674–1675
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1258 or 877 or 105     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1259 or 878 or 106

Archbishop Malachy (1094–1148)

Events

By place

Levant

• Summer – Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk governor (atabeg) of Aleppo and Mosul, marches on Baghdad (the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate), to add it to his dominions. He is defeated by the forces of Caliph Al-Mustarshid, near Tikrit (modern Iraq). Zengi flees and escapes, with the help of Tikrit's governor Najm ad-Din Ayyub (the father of Saladin), who conveys him across the River Tigris.^[1]

Europe

• July 24 – Battle of Nocera: Rebel Normans under Count Ranulf II defeat the Sicilian forces, led by King Roger II. Seven hundred knights are captured, and Roger is forced to retreat to Salerno.

England

• Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire.

Asia

• June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000 houses and forcing many to flee to the nearby hills. Due to large fires as this, the government installs an effective fire fighting force for the city. Items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting are temporarily exempted from taxation, 120 tons of rice are distributed among the poor. The government suspends the housing rent requirement of the city's residents.
• The Southern Song court establishes the first permanent standing navy, with the headquarters of the Chinese admiralty based at Dinghai.

By topic

Religion

• Diarmait Mac Murchada has the abbey of Kildare in Ireland burned, and the abbess raped.^[2][3] He becomes king of the province of Leinster.^[4]
• Malachy is appointed archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, to impose the Roman liturgy on the independent Irish Church.
• March 5 – Rievaulx Abbey is founded by the Cistercian order, near Helmsley in Yorkshire.^[5]: 19
• December 27 – Fountains Abbey soon to join the Cistercian order, is founded near Ripon in Yorkshire.^[5]: 11
• Basingwerk Abbey originally Benedictine, and later Cistercian, is founded near Holywell in Wales.^[6]

Births

• February 2 – William of Norwich, English martyr (d. 1144)
• April 21 – Sancho VI (the Wise), king of Navarre (d. 1194)
• Andronikos Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocrat (or 1133)
• Ephraim of Bonn, German Jewish rabbi and writer (d. 1196)
• Maurice II de Craon, Norman nobleman and knight (d. 1196)
• Philip of France, French prince and archdeacon (d. 1160)
• Rhys ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Deheubarth (d. 1197)
• Vladimir III Mstislavich, Kievan Grand Prince (d. 1171)

Deaths

• February 9 – Maredudd ap Bleddyn, king of Powys (b. 1047)
• March 26 – Geoffrey of Vendôme, French abbot (b. 1070)
• April 1 – Hugh of Châteauneuf, bishop of Grenoble (b. 1053)
• April 14 – Mstislav I (the Great), Kievan Grand Prince (b. 1076)
• June 6 – Taj al-Muluk Buri, Seljuk governor and regent
• October 26 – Floris the Black, Dutch count of Holland
• Conrad von Plötzkau, margrave of the Northern March
• Hugh III of Le Puiset, French nobleman and crusader
• William of Zardana (or Saône), French nobleman (or 1133)