1112

This page relates to the year 1112 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

  • Beginning of the reign of Alaungsithu, king of Pagan in Burma (fine in 1167).
  • Beginning of the reign of Suryavarman II, king of the Khmer Kampuchea (fine in 1152).
  • Apogee of the empire of Angkor under the reign of Suryavarman II. It close the Burma, the Đai Vietnamese soldier and the Champâ.
  • Return to the capacity of the reformists in China.

The Middle East

  • Baudouin Ier of Jerusalem is turned over against Tyr, considered impregnable, which shelters a great number of Moslem refugees (1112). The Francs build a mobile tower equipped with a ram which shakes the wall. Tyriens, using hooks, on several occasions manage to unbalance the tower, then to set fire to it. After 133 days of seat, the Francs must evacuate the tower and beat a retreat (April 10th). The defenders benefit from it to operate an exit and to seize many abandoned weapons.

Europe

  • Beginning of a revolt against Henri V in Saxony, Plank and Westphalia (fine in 1116).
  • November 1st: Beginning of the reign of Alphonse Henriques, count de Portugal, then three years old, under the regency of his/her mother Therese de León. With died of the count Henri of Portugal, his succession is asserted at the same time by its widow, the queen Therese and by her son Alphonse-Henri. Therese is based on the Galician aristocracy, her son on the Portuguese (1128).

Art & culture

  • Spring: Bernard of Fountain-the-Dijon enters to the monastery of Cîteaux. It will become after three years of monastic life, at 24 years, the chief of the foundation of Clairvaux.

Births in 1112

Death in 1112

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

  • Tancrède, regent of Antioche.

Map-bms: 1112

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