1106

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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Dog丙戌( at the beginning of the year Wood Rooster乙酉)

Syria: 1417/18 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

  • January 6: Princes Ingelheim: in the wake of the Investiture Controversy receives after the abdication of the Emperor Henry IV, his son Henry V the imperial insignia.
  • September 2: Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Yusuf ibn Tashfin succeeds his father as ruler of the Moorish Tashfin after empire of the Almoravids.
  • September 28: King Henry I defeated an English army at the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy, the Norman army of his older brother Robert Curthose and takes this prisoner.
  • Gottfried VI. of Brabant receives from Emperor Henry V the title of Duke of Lower Lorraine.
  • Dominated by the Moors Spanish city Balaguer was conquered by the Counts of Urgell.

Ersturkundliche mentions

  • The first written mention of the Polish city of Kalisz and Brusio ( Switzerland ).

Economy

  • In Worms, the oldest profession in Germany, founded the Worms Fischerzunft.
  • Archbishop Frederick I of Bremen starts Holler colonization.

Religion and Culture

  • The Speyer Cathedral is completed in its present form.

Nature and Environment

  • February 2: The Great Comet of 1106 ( X/1106 C1) appears for the first time. It is visible in parts of Europe and Asia by mid-March.

Born

Died

  • Cáenchomrac Ua Baigill, Bishop of Armagh
10098
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