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
- Conrad II, Count of Luxembourg († 1136 )
- Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese poet and samurai leader of the Minamoto armies († 1180)
Died
- Cáenchomrac Ua Baigill, Bishop of Armagh