1100 To 11091100This Decade - Chretien de Troyes of France introduces Camelot into the Arthurian legend and places Lancelot in the saga along with the quest for the Holy Grail.
c - France The Abbot Suger was busy embellishing the abbey of St. Denis.
c - India The comic man-elephant "Ganesha" sculpture was carved in schist.
c - East African traders in Kilwa controlled the export of gold and ivory from the southern kingdoms. Kilwa was the most prosperous of the east African city-states.
c - Berlin was founded amid the sandy plains and swamps of Brandenburg. u.1200
c - St. Cono was born in Teggiano in southern Italy.He became a Benedictine monk and went on to perform numerous miracles. His remains were later embedded in a statue in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
c - Geoffrey of Monmouth, English chronicler, born d.1154.The Welsh cleric will claim that Merlin used magic to bring the stones of Stonehenge from Ireland.
c - Spain The town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada was founded by a man known as St. Dominic of the Walkway.
c - The Arab geographer Idrisi claimed that Indians preferred iron from East Africa over their own because of its malleability. u.1200
c - Troubadour musicians organized in southern France.
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c - The German Stammheim Missal was made. It told stories from Creation to the crucifixion of Christ.
c - Ireland Cistercian monks established an abbey on Clare Island.
c - The official stave churches of Norway were mostly built during this period.u.1400 Norwegian Chronicles mentioned a stave church in the village of Vaga.
c - India The bronze sculpture "Shiva Nataraya" depicted the Hindu god of creation and destruction doing the dance that sustains the universe.
c - Serbs occupied parts of northern and eastern Albanian inhabited lands.
c - The Norse visited Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic as early as the 12th century and traded with the Thule, evidenced by chain mail, boat rivets, knife blades, and other artifacts turned up near Bache Peninsula.
c - status The Chinese began to use the magnetic compass.
c - The book Gyuschi was a compilation of Tibetan medicine that described the making and applications of medications extracted from herbs, roots and minerals often served as hot teas.
c - Cambodia The Khmer empire reached its peak under King Jajavarman II.u.1200
c - Ireland A cathedral is built in Limerick.
c - Muhammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, Arab mathematician and astronomer, wrote "hisab al-jabr w' al muqabalah" (the science of reduction and comparison) in the 9th century. The work dealt with solving equations. u.1200 It was the first time that algebra was discussed as a separate branch of mathematics. In the 12th century it was translated into Latin as "Ludus algebrae et almucgrabalaeque."
c - Constantinople was devastated by fires.
c - Japan Nichiren Daishonin, the son of a fisherman in Awa, established a new sect of Buddhism.
x - Netherlands Wittem Castle in Limburg dates to this time.
may 30 - Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht.
jul 13 - England Abbey Church at Gloucester dedicated.
jul 18 - Godfried IV van Bouillon, count of Antwerp, dies.
aug 02 - England William II a.44, Rufus, king of England, shot in New Forest while hunting.
aug 05 - England The reign of Henry I. u.1135.
aug 13 - England William II buried at Winchester.
nov 11 - England Henry I marries Edith of Scotland b.c.1080-Matilda.
1101x - England Arundel Castle siege.
x - China Huizong rules. He is a calligrapher, painter and Confucian advocate of embracing antiquity. He broadens the scope of Imperial collecting to embrace bronze ritual objects as well as old paintings and calligraphy. u.1125
x - England Roger Bigod granted lands at Framlingham.
x - William IX, the Duke of Aquitaine, returned from the Crusades and composed songs about his adventures, thus becoming the first troubadour. He was excommunicated for licentious acts, but his lyrics led to the "courtly love" genre.
feb 00 - England Robert attempts to take the Crown.
apr 02 - England Henry I appoints a Norman Monk, Roger as Chancellor.
jul 02 - England The Treaty of Alton.
1102x - Coats were forced to enter into a union with Hungary and to recognize the Hungarian king as their own.
x - England Henry captures castle at Bridgnorth.
1103x - England Henry let off paying Robert of Normandy.
x - England Crops do badly.
jan 17 - Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies.
1104x - Japan First year of Chôji.
sep 28 - Pedro I, king of Navarra & Aragon, dies.
1105x - England Henry attacks his brother.
jul 13 - Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki, Jewish intellectual, dies.
nov 18 - Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I.
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nov 24 - Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary.
1106x - Japan First year of Kajô.
x - England A comet passes by.
apr 06 - Fire in Venice.
sep 28 - King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy.
1107x - England Construction of Llandaff Cathedral.
x - Scotland Alexander I becomes king of the Scots.
x - China printed money in 3 colors to thwart counterfeiters.
1108x - Japan Minamoto Yoshiie dies.
x - England Southwell Cathedral nave.
x - Louis VI becomes King of France.
x - England Winchester Cathedral tower.
x - Japan First year of Tennin.
aug 03 - Louis VI, "the Fat One," King of France, crowned.
1109apr 21 - Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies.
jun 30 - Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies.
jul 12 - Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli and found fourth state..
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