Doomed English ship founders on Quilleboeuf Rock in the White Ship Disaster of 1120.
| Centuries: | 11th century - 12th century - 13th century |
| Decades: | 1090s 1100s 1110s - 1120s - 1130s 1140s 1150s
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| Years: | 1117 1118 1119 - 1120 - 1121 1122 1123 |
| 1120 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Births – Deaths – Works | |
| Art and literature | |
| 1120 in poetry | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1120 MCXX
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| Ab urbe condita | 1873 |
| Armenian calendar | 569 ԹՎ ՇԿԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -724 – -723 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1664 |
| Coptic calendar | 836 – 837 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1112 – 1113 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4880 – 4881 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1175 – 1176 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1042 – 1043 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4221 – 4222 |
| Holocene calendar | 11120 |
| Iranian calendar | 498 – 499 |
| Islamic calendar | 513 – 514 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1780 (皇紀1780年) |
| Julian calendar | 1165 |
| Korean calendar | 3453 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1663 |
Events[]
- Welcher of Malvern creates a system of measurement for the earth using degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.
- Construction begins on Llandaff Cathedral in Wales.
- January 16 — Council of Nablus in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- November 25 — White Ship Disaster was a vessel that sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur the resulted in a great loss of life, including many of the English nobility. Those who drowned included William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, his half-sister Matilda, and his half-brother Richard. This tragedy caused a major succession crisis for the House of Normandy.
Births[]
- November 28 — Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)
- Ioveta of Bethany, daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem
- Louis VII of France (d. 1180)
Deaths[]
- November 25 — William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (sinking of the White Ship) (b. 1103)
- Richard d'Avranches (b. 1094)
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People of the year 1120 at Familypedia
65 people were born in 1120
43 children were born to the 25 women born in 1120
28 people died in 1120
1076 people lived in 1120
Events of the year 1120 at Familypedia
26 people were married in 1120.
There were 0 military battles in 1120.