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Year 1134 (MCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Asia

• Hugh II of Le Puiset, Count of Jaffa, revolts against King Fulk of Jerusalem.
• Mas'ud becomes sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
• The Kangguo Era begins in the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
• Wu Ge, the Chinese Song Dynasty Deputy Transport Commissioner of Zhejiang, has paddle wheel warships constructed with a total of nine wheels and others with thirteen wheels.

Europe

Eastern Europe

• Vsevolod Mstislavich of Novgorod defeats the Chuds and captures Tartu.
• Yuri Dolgoruki founds the town of Skniatino.
• Iziaslav II of Kiev becomes Prince of Vladimir and Volyn.
• Viacheslav of Kiev becomes Prince of Turov.

Mediterranean

• Ermengarde becomes viscountess of Narbonne.
• Narbonne is seized by Alphonse I of Toulouse.
• Castillan defeat at the battle of Fraga against Muslim troops: Alfonso I of Aragon is killed, and succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.
• Roger II of Sicily defeats a revolt in Naples.
• Called by Olegarius, the bishop of Tarragona, the knights Templar establish their first stronghold in Catalonia.^[1]

Scandinavia

• Battle of Färlev: Magnus IV of Norway defeats Harald IV Gille of Norway.
• Harald Kesja and Magnus the Strong are defeated at the Battle of Fotevik.
• Eric II becomes King of Denmark.
• The House of Brandenburg is founded when Albrecht the Bear is made head of the Nordmark.

Western Europe

• Aed mac Domnaill becomes King of Ui Failghe.
• Much of Chartres, France, is destroyed by fire.
• Henry of Lausanne is sentenced to imprisonment by Pope Innocent II.
• The Zeeland archipelago is created by a massive storm in the North Sea.
• Hermann III of Baden marries Bertha of Lorraine.
• Ulrich I becomes Duke of Carinthia.

By topic

Culture

• May 13 – The Saint-Denis basilica, near Paris, is damaged by a fire. This will give the opportunity to the abbot Suger to rebuild it in a new style, which will open the Gothic period of architecture.
• University of Salamanca established in the Kingdom of León.
• Abdul Qadir Jilani becomes principal of the Hanbali school in Baghdad.
• The Japanese classic text Uchigikishu is written.
• Robert of Ketton and Herman of Carinthia travel throughout France, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States.

Religion

• Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.
• Saint Malachy becomes Archbishop of Armagh.
• The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.
• The Augustinian Runcorn Priory is transferred to Norton Priory.
• Buckfastleigh Abbey is refounded.
• Aelred of Hexham enters the monastery at Rievaulx Abbey.
• St. Stephen Harding becomes abbott of Cîteaux Abbey.
• Saint Hugh of Grenoble is canonized by Innocent II.
• The Cathedral of St. Petri in Schleswig is completed.
• The Abbey of St. Jacob is founded in Würzburg.
• Evermode of Ratzeburg becomes Abbot of Gottesgnaden.
• The Humiliati retreat to a monastery in Milan.
• Leo Styppes becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.

Births

• June 1 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)
• King Sancho III of Castile (d. 1158)
• King Sverker I of Sweden (approximate date; d. 1156)
• Raymond V of Toulouse (d. 1194)
• Lord Basava, founder of the Lingayat sect

Deaths

• February 10 – Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
• March 28 – Saint Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order
• June 4 – Magnus the Strong, Swedish usurper
• June 6 – Saint Norbert, founder of the Norbertine order of canons
• June 25 – King Niels of Denmark
• August 13 – Piroska of Hungary, wife of John II Comnenus
• September – Alfonso I of Aragon
• October 23 – Abu al-Salt, Andalusian polymath
• date unknown
  • Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (b. 1100)
  • Hugh II of Le Puiset, crusader knight and Count of Jaffa (b. 1100)
  • Emperor Taizong of Jin
  • Patriarch John IX of Constantinople

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