1119

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1119 (MCXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1119th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 119th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 12th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1110s decade. As of the start of 1119, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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Technology

  • In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese writer Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.
  • Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.
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Births

  • July 7 Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
  • Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1176)

Deaths

  • January 24 Pope Gelasius II
  • July 17 Baldwin VII of Flanders
  • Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
  • Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch
  • Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick

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