1128

This article is about the year 1128.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1090s  1100s  1110s  – 1120s –  1130s  1140s  1150s
Years:	1125 1126 1127 – 1128 – 1129 1130 1131

1128 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1128 in poetry

1128 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1128 MCXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1881
Armenian calendar	577 ԹՎ ՇՀԷ
Assyrian calendar	5878
Bengali calendar	535
Berber calendar	2078
English Regnal year	28 Hen. 1 – 29 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1672
Burmese calendar	490
Byzantine calendar	6636–6637
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3824 or 3764     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3825 or 3765
Coptic calendar	844–845
Discordian calendar	2294
Ethiopian calendar	1120–1121
Hebrew calendar	4888–4889
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1184–1185
- Shaka Samvat	1050–1051
- Kali Yuga	4229–4230
Holocene calendar	11128
Igbo calendar	128–129
Iranian calendar	506–507
Islamic calendar	521–523
Japanese calendar	Daiji 3 (大治３年)
Julian calendar	1128 MCXXVIII
Korean calendar	3461
Minguo calendar	784 before ROC 民前784年
Seleucid era	1439/1440 AG
Thai solar calendar	1670–1671

Year 1128 (MCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Champa invades Vietnam.
• Jin–Song wars: Song Dynasty China establishes a temporary capital at Yangzhou while the government retreats south after the Jurchen Jin Dynasty captured their previous capital of Kaifeng in the Jingkang Incident.

Europe

• June 17 – Geoffrey of Anjou marries Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England.
• June 24 – Battle of São Mamede: Afonso I of Portugal (then Count of Portugal) defeats his mother, Teresa of León, and gains control of the county, which thus becomes de facto independent.
• July 27 – The city of Bruges is founded.
• King Louis VI of France agrees to the accession of Thierry of Alsace as Count of Flanders.
• Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos defeats the Magyars near Haram on the Danube River.
• Foundation of Kelso Abbey by David I of Scotland

By topic

Religion

• Pope Honorius II recognizes and confirms the Order of the Knights Templar. Bernard of Clairvaux codifies the rule of the order.
• Holyrood Abbey is founded in Edinburgh by David I, King of Scotland.

Births

• Absalon, Danish archbishop and statesman
• Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet (approximate date; d. 1202)
• Archbishop William of Tyre, historian of the Crusades (approximate date; d. 1186)

Deaths

• July 28 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
• Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham