1126

This article is about the year 1126.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1090s  1100s  1110s  – 1120s –  1130s  1140s  1150s
Years:	1123 1124 1125 – 1126 – 1127 1128 1129

1126 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1126 in poetry

1126 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1126 MCXXVI
Ab urbe condita	1879
Armenian calendar	575 ԹՎ ՇՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	5876
Bengali calendar	533
Berber calendar	2076
English Regnal year	26 Hen. 1 – 27 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1670
Burmese calendar	488
Byzantine calendar	6634–6635
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3822 or 3762     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3823 or 3763
Coptic calendar	842–843
Discordian calendar	2292
Ethiopian calendar	1118–1119
Hebrew calendar	4886–4887
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1182–1183
- Shaka Samvat	1048–1049
- Kali Yuga	4227–4228
Holocene calendar	11126
Igbo calendar	126–127
Iranian calendar	504–505
Islamic calendar	519–520
Japanese calendar	Tenji 3 / Daiji 1 (大治元年)
Julian calendar	1126 MCXXVI
Korean calendar	3459
Minguo calendar	786 before ROC 民前786年
Seleucid era	1437/1438 AG
Thai solar calendar	1668–1669

Year 1126 (MCXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• January–March – In Song dynasty China, scholars and farmers demonstrate around Kaifeng for the restoration of a trusted military official, Li Gang (李綱). Small conflicts erupt between the protestors and the government.
• January 18 – Emperor Huizong of Song abdicates in favour of his son Qinzong.
• The Song dynasty loses the Yellow River valley to the Jin dynasty in the Jin–Song Wars. Remnants of the court flee south, including much of the populace and communities such as the Kaifeng Jews.
• Two previously written Chinese pharmaceutical works, one by Shen Kuo and another by Su Shi, are combined into one written work.

Europe

• March 10 – Alfonso VII is crowned king of Castile and León in Spain.
• Rutherglen becomes one of the first Royal Burghs in Scotland.
• Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne, is killed by upset peasants at a local thing. Sweden is without ruler, but Magnus the Strong claims sovereignty over Gothenland for the time being.
• King Alfonso the Battler of Navarre and Aragon launches a raid into Granada.
• The Venetians occupy Cephalonia. Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos restores their trading privileges.
• Olegarius creates the community of knights known as the confraternity of Tarragona to combat the Andalusians in Catalonia.

By topic

Science

• Adelard of Bath translates Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī's arithmetic and astronomical tables into Latin.

Births

• Fan Chengda, Chinese poet, travel writer, and geographer (d. 1193)
• Averroes, Andalus judge and physician
• Eynion de Tilston, Norman English knight and lord of the manor

Deaths

• February 10 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (b. 1071)
• March 8 – Queen Urraca of León and Castile (b. 1082)
• October 1 – Morphia of Melitene, Queen of Jerusalem
• Edgar the Ætheling, last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house (b. 1052)
• Ragnvald Knaphövde, pretender to the Swedish throne (killed by upset peasants at the thing)
• Abbot Ekkehard of Aura
• Omar Khayyám, Persian poet and mathematician
• Al-Tutili, Andalusian poet