1143

1143 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1143
MCXLIII
Ab urbe condita1896
Armenian calendar592
ԹՎ ՇՂԲ
Assyrian calendar5893
Balinese saka calendar1064–1065
Bengali calendar549–550
Berber calendar2093
English Regnal yearSte. 1 – 9 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar1687
Burmese calendar505
Byzantine calendar6651–6652
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
3840 or 3633
    — to —
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
3841 or 3634
Coptic calendar859–860
Discordian calendar2309
Ethiopian calendar1135–1136
Hebrew calendar4903–4904
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1199–1200
 - Shaka Samvat1064–1065
 - Kali Yuga4243–4244
Holocene calendar11143
Igbo calendar143–144
Iranian calendar521–522
Islamic calendar537–538
Japanese calendarKōji 2
(康治2年)
Javanese calendar1049–1050
Julian calendar1143
MCXLIII
Korean calendar3476
Minguo calendar769 before ROC
民前769年
Nanakshahi calendar−325
Seleucid era1454/1455 AG
Thai solar calendar1685–1686
Tibetan calendarཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Water-Dog)
1269 or 888 or 116
    — to —
ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Water-Boar)
1270 or 889 or 117
King Fulk of Jerusalem (r. 1131–1143)

Year 1143 (MCXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

  • April 8 – Emperor John II (Komnenos) dies of a poisoned arrow wound while hunting wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Manuel I, who is chosen as his successor, in preference to his elder surviving brother Isaac. Manuel dispatches John Axouchos, his commander-in-chief (megas domestikos), to Constantinople ahead of him – with orders to arrest Isaac in the Great Palace.[1]

Levant

Europe

England

  • July 1 – Battle of Wilton: Earl Robert of Gloucester (illegitimate son of the late King Henry I) defeats the English forces of King Stephen during a surprise attack at Wilton Abbey. In the darkness, Stephen escapes, while his steward William Martel fights a rearguard action to delay the pursuers.
  • Autumn – Stephen arrests Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, during a meeting of the Royal Court at St. Albans. He is charged with treason against Stephen, but given his freedom back in return for surrendering his title and castles. Geoffrey becomes an outlaw and fortifies Ramsey Abbey, where he sets up his headquarters to plunder the countryside of Ely.

Africa

  • Norman raiders capture Jijel (modern Algeria).[3] A Norman raid on Ceuta fails,[4] but at the same time the Normans lead a successful assault against Sfax.[5]

By topic

Religion

Literature


Births

  • July 31 – Nijō, emperor of Japan (d. 1165)
  • Balian of Ibelin, French nobleman (d. 1193)
  • Beatrice I, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1184)
  • Fujiwara no Motozane, Japanese waka poet (d. 1166)
  • Jigten Sumgön, founder of the Drikung Kagyu (d. 1217)
  • Konoe Motozane, Japanese nobleman (d. 1166)
  • Mu'in al-Din Chishti, Persian preacher (d. 1236)
  • Philip I (of Alsace), count of Flanders (d. 1191)

Deaths

  • January 12 – Leo of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch
  • January 26 – Ali ibn Yusuf, ruler of the Almoravids (b. 1084)
  • February 6 – Hugh II of Burgundy, French nobleman (b. 1084)
  • April 8 – John II (Komnenos), Byzantine emperor (b. 1087)
  • April 18 – Gertrude, German duchess and regent (b. 1115)
  • June 24 – Ermesinde, French noblewoman (b. 1080)
  • August 2 – Muño Alfonso, Galician military leader
  • September 23 – Innocent II, pope of the Catholic Church
  • September 24 – Agnes, daughter of Henry IV (b. 1072)
  • November 13 – Fulk (the Younger), king of Jerusalem
  • December 24 – Miles of Gloucester, English nobleman
  • Alexander of Telese, Italian chronicler and abbot
  • Gilla Aenghus Ua Chlúmháin, Irish poet and writer
  • Kogyo-Daishi, Japanese Buddhist priest (b. 1095)
  • William of Malmesbury, English monk and historian
  • Yelü Dashi, founder of the Qara Khitai (b. 1094)

References

  1. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  2. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 188–189. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. ^ Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 71.
  4. ^ Picard C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
  5. ^ Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" [Sicily and the Libyan space in the Middle Ages] (PDF). Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell'Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (in French). 63 (2): 187–208. JSTOR 25734500. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022.