1126

1126 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1126 MCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1879
Armenian calendar	575 ԹՎ ՇՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	5876
Balinese saka calendar	1047–1048
Bengali calendar	532–533
Berber calendar	2076
English Regnal year	26 Hen. 1 – 27 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1670
Burmese calendar	488
Byzantine calendar	6634–6635
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3823 or 3616     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3824 or 3617
Coptic calendar	842–843
Discordian calendar	2292
Ethiopian calendar	1118–1119
Hebrew calendar	4886–4887
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1182–1183
- Shaka Samvat	1047–1048
- Kali Yuga	4226–4227
Holocene calendar	11126
Igbo calendar	126–127
Iranian calendar	504–505
Islamic calendar	519–520
Japanese calendar	Tenji 3 / Daiji 1 (大治元年)
Javanese calendar	1031–1032
Julian calendar	1126 MCXXVI
Korean calendar	3459
Minguo calendar	786 before ROC 民前786年
Nanakshahi calendar	−342
Seleucid era	1437/1438 AG
Thai solar calendar	1668–1669
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1252 or 871 or 99     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1253 or 872 or 100

Year 1126 (MCXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• January–March – In Song Dynasty China, scholars and farmers demonstrate around Kaifeng for the restoration of a probity military official, Li Gang (李綱). Small conflicts erupt between the protestors and the Government.
• Two previously written Chinese pharmaceutical works, one by Shen Kuo and another by Su Shi, are combined into one written work.
• The rule of Emperor Huizong of Song ends in China.
• The Jin Dynasty is established in the north of China, following the Song Dynasty's loss at the Huang He River valley. Remnants of the court flee south, including much of the populace and communities such as the Kaifeng Jews.

Europe

• Rutherglen becomes one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.
• Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne, is killed by upset peasants at a local thing. Sweden is without ruler, but Magnus the Strong claims sovereignty over Gothenland for the time being.
• Alfonso VII is crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.
• King Alfonso the Battler of Navarre and Aragon launches a raid into Granada.
• The Venetians occupy Cephalonia. Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos restores their trading privileges.
• Olegarius creates the community of knights known as the confraternity of Tarragona to combat the Andalusians in Catalonia.

By topic

Science

• Adelard of Bath translates Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.

Births

• Fan Chengda, Chinese poet, travel writer, and geographer (d. 1193)
• Averoes, Andalus judge and physician
• Eynion de Tilston Lord of the Manor of Tilston

Deaths

• February 10 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (b. 1071)
• March 8 – Queen Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
• October 1 – Morphia of Melitene, Queen of Jerusalem
• Edgar Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (b. 1052)
• Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne (killed by upset peasants at the thing)
• Abbot Ekkehard of Aura
• Omar Khayyam, Persian poet and mathematician