1129

Year 1129 (MCXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

1129 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1129 MCXXIX
Ab urbe condita	1882
Armenian calendar	578 ԹՎ ՇՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	5879
Balinese saka calendar	1050–1051
Bengali calendar	535–536
Berber calendar	2079
English Regnal year	29 Hen. 1 – 30 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1673
Burmese calendar	491
Byzantine calendar	6637–6638
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3826 or 3619     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3827 or 3620
Coptic calendar	845–846
Discordian calendar	2295
Ethiopian calendar	1121–1122
Hebrew calendar	4889–4890
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1185–1186
- Shaka Samvat	1050–1051
- Kali Yuga	4229–4230
Holocene calendar	11129
Igbo calendar	129–130
Iranian calendar	507–508
Islamic calendar	523–524
Japanese calendar	Daiji 4 (大治４年)
Javanese calendar	1034–1035
Julian calendar	1129 MCXXIX
Korean calendar	3462
Minguo calendar	783 before ROC 民前783年
Nanakshahi calendar	−339
Seleucid era	1440/1441 AG
Thai solar calendar	1671–1672
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Monkey) 1255 or 874 or 102     — to — ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Bird) 1256 or 875 or 103

Emperor Shirakawa (1073–1087)

Events

By place

Europe

• April 14 – Following the Capetian tradition, King Louis VI (the Fat) has his eldest son Philip crowned as co-ruler of France at Rheims Cathedral. Louis himself becomes the national protector of all France.
• June 2 – Fulk V, count of Anjou, marries Melisende (daughter of King Baldwin II) the heir to the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Fulk gives up his title which passes to his 15-year-old son, Geoffrey V (the Fair).
• September – Roger II of Sicily gains recognition as duke at Melfi from the Norman nobles of Naples, Bari, Capua, Salerno and other cities that have resisted him.
• Burgsteinfurt Castle is built in what is now Steinfurt (modern Germany).

Asia

• Jin–Song War: Emperor Gao Zong of the Song dynasty moves the capital from Yangzhou to Hangzhou, after the Jurchen Jin dynasty captures Kaifeng in the Jingkang Incident.
• March 26 – Gao Zong abdicates the throne after a mutiny of the palace guard. His 2-year-old son Zhao Fu succeeds him, but Empress Meng becomes regent and the sole ruler.
• April 20 – Gao Zong regains the throne (with the support of the imperial army led by General Han Shizhong). Zhao Fu is forced to abdicate with Meng having ruled for 25 days.
• July 24 – Former Emperor Shirakawa dies at his native Kyoto. His son Toba begins his cloistered rule, sharing power with Sutoku, a grandson of Shirakawa.

By topic

Religion

• January 23 – Henry of Blois becomes bishop of Winchester after the death of William Giffard (who was also Lord Chancellor to King Henry I) in England.

Births

• Abu al-Abbas as-Sabti, Moroccan Sufi writer (d. 1204)
• Date Tomomune, Japanese nobleman and samurai (d. 1199)
• Elisabeth of Schönau, German Benedictine abbess (d. 1164)
• Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and Bavaria (d. 1195)
• Theophanes Kerameus, bishop of Rossano (d. 1152)

Deaths

• January 23 – William Giffard, bishop of Winchester
• January 27 – Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester (b. 1070)^[1]
• January 29 – Minamoto no Shunrai, Japanese poet (b. 1055)
• February 16 – Thoros I, Armenian prince (or 1130)
• February 17 – Constantine II, Armenian prince
• July 24 – Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (b. 1053)
• July 28 – Zhao Fu, emperor of the Song dynasty (b. 1127)
• November 21 – Nigel d'Aubigny, Norman nobleman
• December 30 – Roger of Cannae, Italian bishop (b. 1060)
• Athanasius VI bar Khamoro, patriarch of Antioch
• Cellach of Armagh (or Celsus), Irish archbishop (b. 1080)
• Fujiwara no Akinaka, Japanese nobleman (b. 1059)
• John Theristus, Italian Benedictine monk (b. 1049)
• Ramiro Sánchez, Spanish nobleman (or 1130)
• Richard Fitz Pons, Norman nobleman (b. 1080)
• Walter FitzRoger, Norman sheriff of Gloucester
• Zhao Mingcheng, Chinese politician (b. 1081)