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Heads of State

Year of the Fire Rooster丁酉( at the beginning of the year Fire Monkey丙申)

Syria: 1428/29 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem, penetrates with an army against the Fatimids through the Sinai to the Nile, conquered the city without a fight there Pelusium and can destroy them. After eating local fish Baldwin ill with food poisoning, forcing him to retire again in 1118 to Palestine, and he still dies on the decline.
  • The Emir Ali ibn Yusuf Amiriden under conquer Coimbra, but need a few days later to abandon the city.

Disasters

  • January 3: A major earthquake occurred in northern Italy, Verona and studied home. The earthquake of Verona damaged, among other things, the Arena of Verona difficult, its outer wall is partially destroyed.

Born

  • Humphrey II of Toron and Mr. Constable of Jerusalem ( † 1179 )
  • To 1117: Henry I, Count of funds and Count of Zutphen († 1182 )
  • To 1117: Otto the redhead, Count Palatine, later Duke of Bavaria († 1183 )

Died

  • 09 January: Maol Muire Ua Dunain, first Archbishop of Cashel and a leading reformer of the Irish Church (* 1040 )
  • 09 December: Gertrude the Younger of Brunswick, Margrave of Meissen (c. 1060 )
  • Gilbertus Crispin, English theologian and abbot of Westminster (c. 1046 )
  • Bernard Wilhelm, Count of Cerdanya, Conflent and Berga
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