1115

1115 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1115
MCXV
Ab urbe condita1868
Armenian calendar564
ԹՎ ՇԿԴ
Assyrian calendar5865
Balinese saka calendar1036–1037
Bengali calendar521–522
Berber calendar2065
English Regnal year15 Hen. 1 – 16 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar1659
Burmese calendar477
Byzantine calendar6623–6624
Chinese calendar甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3812 or 3605
    — to —
乙未年 (Wood Goat)
3813 or 3606
Coptic calendar831–832
Discordian calendar2281
Ethiopian calendar1107–1108
Hebrew calendar4875–4876
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1171–1172
 - Shaka Samvat1036–1037
 - Kali Yuga4215–4216
Holocene calendar11115
Igbo calendar115–116
Iranian calendar493–494
Islamic calendar508–509
Japanese calendarEikyū 3
(永久3年)
Javanese calendar1020–1021
Julian calendar1115
MCXV
Korean calendar3448
Minguo calendar797 before ROC
民前797年
Nanakshahi calendar−353
Seleucid era1426/1427 AG
Thai solar calendar1657–1658
Tibetan calendarཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Wood-Horse)
1241 or 860 or 88
    — to —
ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Wood-Sheep)
1242 or 861 or 89
Emperor Taizu of Jin (1068–1123)

Year 1115 (MCXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Levant

Europe

  • February 11 – Battle of Welfesholz: Duke Lothair of Supplinburg joins the rebellious Saxon forces, and defeats the German Imperial Army of Emperor Henry V at Welfesholz, in Saxony-Anhalt (modern Germany).[2]
  • July 24 – Matilda, margravine of Tuscany, dies at Bondeno. During her reign she waged an intermittent war with Emperor Henry IV over the inheritance rights of her fiefs in Lombardy and Tuscany.

Asia

  • The Jin Dynasty (or Great Jin) is created by the Jurchen tribal chieftain Taizu (or Aguda). He establishes a dual-administration system: a Chinese-style bureaucracy to rule over northern and northeast China.
  • The 19-year-old Minamoto no Tameyoshi, Japanese nobleman and samurai, gains recognition by suppressing a riot against Emperor Toba at a monastery near Kyoto (approximate date).

Mesoamerica

  • The Mixtec ruler Eight Deer Jaguar Claw (or 8 Deer) is defeated in battle and sacrificed by a coalition of city-states, led by his brother-in law 4 Wind, at Tilantongo in the Mixteca Alta region (modern Mexico).[3]

By topic

Religion

Births

  • April 18 – Gertrude, German duchess and regent (d. 1143)
  • September 18 – Wu, Chinese empress consort (d. 1197)
  • Aubrey de Vere, 1st Earl of Oxford (approximate date)
  • Berenguer Raymond, count of Provence (d. 1144)
  • Erling Skakke, Norwegian nobleman (approximate date)
  • Eustathius of Thessalonica, Byzantine archbishop (d. 1195)
  • Euthymios Malakes, Byzantine bishop (approximate date)
  • Fulk I FitzWarin (or Fulke), English nobleman (d. 1170)
  • Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford (d. 1152)
  • Hugo Etherianus, Italian cardinal and adviser (d. 1182)
  • Joel ben Isaac ha-Levi, German rabbi and writer (d. 1200)
  • Li Tao (or Renfu), Chinese historian and writer (d. 1184)
  • Magnus IV (the Blind), king of Norway (approximate date)
  • Pedro Fernández de Castro, Spanish nobleman (d. 1184)
  • Peter Cellensis, French abbot and bishop (d. 1183)
  • Roger de Pont L'Évêque, Norman archbishop (d. 1181)
  • Welf VI, margrave of Tuscany (House of Welf) (d. 1191)
  • Wichmann von Seeburg, German archbishop (d. 1192)
  • William V (the Old), marquis of Montferrat (d. 1191)

Deaths

  • 16 May – Lambert of Arras, Flemish bishop[4]
  • July 8 – Peter the Hermit, French religious leader
  • July 24 – Matilda, margravine of Tuscany (b. 1046)[5]
  • September 27 – Bonfilius, Italian Saint and bishop of Foligno[6]
  • December 22 – Olav Magnusson, king of Norway (b. 1099)
  • December 23 – Ivo of Chartres, French bishop (b. 1040)
  • December 30 – Theodoric II, duke of Lorraine
  • Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, Arab theologian (or 1114)
  • Adela of Flanders, queen of Denmark (b. 1064)
  • Artau II, count of Pallars Sobirà (approximate date)
  • Eight Deer Jaguar Claw, Mixtec ruler (b. 1063)
  • Gerberga (or Gerburge), countess of Provence
  • Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
  • Leo Marsicanus, Italian cardinal (b. 1046)
  • Mazdali ibn Tilankan, Almoravid governor
  • Odo II (or Eudes), count of Champagne
  • Reynelm (or Reinelm), bishop of Hereford
  • Shin Arahan, Burmese religious adviser
  • Tanchelm of Antwerp, Flemish priest
  • Turgot of Durham, Scottish bishop

References

  1. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. ^ Comyn, Robert (1851). History of the Western Empire from its Restoration by Charlemagne to the Accession of Charles V, p. 181.
  3. ^ Pohl, John M.D. (2002). The Legend of Lord Eight Deer: An Epic of Ancient Mexico. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514019-4. OCLC 47054677.
  4. ^ Vanderputten, Steven (2013). Reform, Conflict, and the Shaping of Corporate Identities: Collected Studies on Benedictine Monasticism, 1050 - 1150. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 69. ISBN 978-3-643-90429-4. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
  5. ^ "Matilda of Canossa | countess of Tuscany". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  6. ^ Nicolini, Ugolino. "BONFIGLIO, santo". Treccani. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 12 (1971). Retrieved March 8, 2023.