Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century 12th century 13th century
Decades:	1100s 1110s 1120s 1130s 1140s
Years:	1120 1121 1122 1123 1124 1125 1126

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1123 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1123 MCXXIII
Ab urbe condita	1876
Armenian calendar	572 ԹՎ ՇՀԲ
Assyrian calendar	5873
Balinese saka calendar	1044–1045
Bengali calendar	530
Berber calendar	2073
English Regnal year	23 Hen. 1 – 24 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1667
Burmese calendar	485
Byzantine calendar	6631–6632
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3820 or 3613 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 3821 or 3614
Coptic calendar	839–840
Discordian calendar	2289
Ethiopian calendar	1115–1116
Hebrew calendar	4883–4884
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1179–1180
- Shaka Samvat	1044–1045
- Kali Yuga	4223–4224
Holocene calendar	11123
Igbo calendar	123–124
Iranian calendar	501–502
Islamic calendar	516–517
Japanese calendar	Hōan 4 (保安４年)
Javanese calendar	1028–1029
Julian calendar	1123 MCXXIII
Korean calendar	3456
Minguo calendar	789 before ROC 民前789年
Nanakshahi calendar	−345
Seleucid era	1434/1435 AG
Thai solar calendar	1665–1666
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1249 or 868 or 96 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1250 or 869 or 97

Year 1123 (MCXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By date

January–March

January 29 – Frederick I, Archbishop of Bremen since 1104, dies after a reign of more than 18 years, and is succeeded by Adalbert II.
February 25 – Japan's Emperor Toba abdicates in favor of his 3-year-old son Sutoku after a 16-year reign. The retired Emperor Shirakawa rules as regent during Toba's minority.
March 18 – First Council of the Lateran convenes in Rome; it confirms the Concordat of Worms (see 1122) and demands clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church.
March 25 – St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, commonly known as Barts, is founded by Rahere, a favourite courtier of King Henry I; it is now the oldest hospital in the United Kingdom operating on its original site.^[1]

April–June

April 18 – King Baldwin II of Jerusalem is captured by Turkish forces under Belek Ghazi – while preparing to practice falconry near Gargar on the Euphrates. Most of the Crusader army is massacred, and Baldwin is taken to the castle at Kharput. To save the situation the Venetians are asked to help. Doge Domenico Michiel lifts the siege of Corfu (see 1122) and takes his fleet to Acre, arriving at the port in the end of May.^[2]
May 9 – A fire in the city of Lincoln nearly destroys the Lincolnshire town; it is memorialized 600 years later by historian Paul de Rapin.^[3]
May 29 – Battle of Yibneh: A Crusader army led by Eustace Grenier defeats the Fatimid forces (16,000 men) near Ibelin. Despite the numerical superiority, Vizier Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi is forced to withdraw to Egypt while his camp is plundered by the Crusaders. Eustace returns to Jerusalem in triumph, but later dies on June 15.^[4]
May 30 – The Venetian fleet arrives at Ascalon and instantly sets about attacking the Fatimid fleet. The Egyptians fall into a trap, caught between two Venetian squadrons, and are destroyed or captured. While sailing back to Acre, the Venetians capture a merchant-fleet of ten richly laden vessels.^[5]
May – Baldwin II and Joscelin I are rescued by 50 Armenian soldiers (disguised as monks and merchants) at Kharput. They kill the guards, and infiltrate the castle where the prisoners are kept. Joscelin escapes to seek help. However, the castle is soon besieged by Turkish forces under Belek Ghazi – and is after some time recaptured. Baldwin and Waleran of Le Puiset are moved for greater safety to the castle of Harran.^[6]
June – King David IV of Georgia, nicknamed "Davit IV Aghmashenebeli" ("David the Builder") by his subjects, defeats the Sultan Mahmud II of the Seljuk Empire (encompassing much of what is now Iraq and Iran).^[7]

July–September

July 22 – William de Corbeil is installed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the highest-ranking cleric in England, after his February 4 election is approved by Pope Callixtus II.^[8]
August 9 – Battle of Al-Dimas: An Italo-Norman campaign in North Africa ends with their troops being massacred by Zirid forces near Mahdia (modern Tunisia).^[9]^[10]
August 29 – King Eystein I (Magnusson) dies during a feast at Hustad after a 20-year reign, leaving his brother Sigurd the Crusader to rule over Norway.
September 27 – Prince Wuqimai of the House of Wanyan becomes the new Emperor of China after the death, on September 19, of his elder brother, the Emperor Taizu, founder of the Jin dynasty. Wuqimai is proclaimed the Emperor Taizong.

October–December

October 7 – Pope Calixtus II issues the papal bull Aequitatis et justitiae, placing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tricarico in Italy under the protection of the papacy.^[11]
November 12 – In Spain, Queen Urraca of León and Castile, the self-proclaimed Imperator totius Hispaniae ("Empress of All Spain"), formally acknowledges 8-year-old Fernando Pérez de Lara as her son and an heir, after he was born out of wedlock from her relationship with Count Pedro González de Lara.^[12]
December 12 – At Sankt Veit an der Glan, Engelbert II of the House of Sponheim becomes the new Duke of Carinthia and the Margrave of Verona (an area encompassing parts of Austria, Slovenia and Italy) upon the death of his older brother Henry IV.^[13]

By place

Middle East

The Pactum Warmundi: A treaty of alliance, is established between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Republic of Venice at Acre. The Venetians receive a street, with a church, baths and a bakery, free of all obligations, in every town of the kingdom. They are also excused of all tolls and taxes.^[14]

Europe

Sigurd I performs a Crusade, the Kalmare ledung, to Christianize the Swedish province of Småland. He makes a pact with King Niels of Denmark.

By topic

Religion

Diego Gelmírez, archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, declares a Crusade in Al-Andalus (modern Spain) against the Almoravids.^[15]
Furness Abbey (or St Mary of Furness) is founded in England by Stephen, count of Boulogne, for the Order of Savigny.

Births

March 29 – Shi Zong (or Wulu), Chinese emperor (d. 1189)
Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (d. 1160)
Osbern of Gloucester, English lexicographer (d. 1200)
Parakramabahu I, Sri Lankan king of Polonnaruwa (d. 1186)
Robert I (the Great), count of Dreux (approximate date)

Deaths

February 9 – Otto (the Rich), count of Ballenstedt (b. 1070)
March 4 – Peter of Pappacarbone, Italian abbot and bishop
May 3 – Felicia of Roucy, queen of Aragon and Navarre
June 15 – Eustace Grenier, French constable and regent
July 18 – Bruno di Segni, Italian prelate and bishop
August 29 – Eystein I (Magnusson), king of Norway
September 11 – Marbodius of Rennes, French archdeacon
September 19 – Taizu, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 1068)
September 27 – Fujiwara no Akisue, Japanese nobleman (b. 1055)
December 14 – Henry IV, duke of Carinthia (House of Sponheim)
Davyd Sviatoslavich, Kievan prince of Murom and Chernigov
Henry II, margrave of Meissen and the Saxon Ostmark (b. 1103)
Langri Tangpa, Tibetan Buddhist monk and master (b. 1054)
Louis the Springer (or Leaper), German nobleman (b. 1042)

References

^ "St Bartholomew's Hospital: Our history". www.bartshealth.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 131. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
^ "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p.72.
^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 133–134. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 134. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
^ Lorenzo Pubblici, Mongol Caucasia: Invasions, Conquest, and Government of a Frontier Region in Thirteenth-Century Eurasia (1204-1295) (Brill, 2022) p.20
^ "Corbeil, William de (d. 1136), by Frank Barlow, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
^ Meynier, Gilbert (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique: De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte. p. 56.
^ Johns, Jeremy (2002). Arabic administration in Norman Sicily: the royal dīwān. Cambridge University Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-521-81692-0.
^ Paul Fridolin Kehr, Italia pontificia, Vol. IX (Weidmann 1962) p.474
^ Bernard F. Reilly, The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca, 1109–1126 (Princeton University Press, 1982) p.176
^ Jonathan Lyon, (2007). "The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Sources from Twelfth-Century Germany", in Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (De Gruyter, 2007) p.147
^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 135. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
^ Fletcher, R. A. (1987). "Reconquest and Crusade in Spain c. 1050-1150". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 5. 37: 31–47 [43]. doi:10.2307/3679149. JSTOR 3679149.