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Calendar overview 1120

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1120
The White Ship sinks in the English Channel with the English Crown Prince William Ætheling on board.	Vladislav I becomes Duke of Bohemia for the second time .
The Liber Floridus was created around 1120 .
1120 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	568/569 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1112/13
Buddhist calendar	1663/64 (southern Buddhism); 1662/63 (alternative calculation according to Buddhas Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	63rd (64th) cycle Year of the Metal Rat庚子 ( at the beginning of the Earth Pig year 己亥)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	482/483 (turn of the year April)
Iranian calendar	498/499 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	513/514 (April 1-2)
Jewish calendar	4880/81 (August 25-26)
Coptic calendar	836/837
Malayalam calendar	295/296
Seleucid era	Babylon: 1430/31 (turn of the year April) Syria: 1431/32 (turn of the year October)
Spanish era	1158
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1176/77 (turn of the year April)

Events

January 16 : Council of Nablus : Ecclesiastical and secular princes draft the first written laws for the Kingdom of Jerusalem .

June 17th : Alfonso I of Aragón destroys with the support of Duke Wilhelm IX. of Aquitaine an army of the Almoravids near Cutanda .
November 25th : The White Ship sinks in the English Channel. The English Crown Prince William Ætheling is among the dead .

Duke Konrad von Zähringen gives the city of Freiburg im Breisgau market and town rights.
Althengstett and Sitzenkirch are first mentioned in a document.
Count Rapoto I established the fortress of Ortenburg and founds the imperial county of Ortenburg .

The Apocalypse in Liber Floridus, copy from the 15th century

around 1120: The Liber Floridus is created, an encyclopedic work by the canonist Lambert de Saint-Omer, which deals with various theological, natural-philosophical and historical questions. The work contains a quasi-chronological report of world events up to the year 1119. Biblical, astronomical, geographical and natural-philosophical topics are dealt with.

Fujiwara no Yorinaga , Minister on the left in the Japanese Fujiwara clan († 1156 )
Ioveta von Bethanien , Abbess of the St. Lazarus Monastery in Jerusalem († around 1170 )
Jehuda ibn Tibbon , Jewish translator († 1190 )
Louis VII , King of France († 1180 )

Arnold I. von Valancourt , Archbishop of Trier († 1183 )
Erik IX. , King of Sweden and patron saint of Sweden († 1160 )
Philipp von Milly , Lord of Nablus and Grand Master of the Templar Order († 1171 )
Ranulf de Glanville , Anglo-Norman nobleman and Justiciar of England († 1190 )
Urban III. , Pope († 1187 )
William de Vere , Lord Chancellor of England († 1198 )

Donor figure of Countess Adelheid von Tübingen in the choir stalls of the Blaubeuren monastery

March 11th : Adelheid von Enzberg , Countess of Tübingen and founder of the monastery
March 23 : Bruno von Beutelsbach , canon at Speyer Cathedral and abbot of Hirsau Monastery

July 15 : Egino , German Benedictine abbot in the monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra (* around 1065 )
September 3 : Gerhard Sasso , founder of the Order of St. John (* around 1040 )
September 24th : Welf V , Duke of Bavaria (* probably 1073 )

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