1117 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1080s  1090s  1100s  – 1110s –  1120s  1130s  1140s
Years:	1114 1115 1116 – 1117 – 1118 1119 1120

Year 1117 (MCXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Africa

• Conflict between the independent republics of Mahdia and Gabes in Ifriqiya. Madhia is supported by the Zirid dynasty while Gabes receives the aid of the Roger I of Sicily.

Asia

• Pelusium is destroyed by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
• Miidera and the sohei of Enryakuji attack Nara, Japan.

Europe

• Borivoj II of Bohemia becomes prince in place of Vladislav I of Bohemia.
• The people of Santiago de Compostela (present-day Spain) try to burn their prelate in his palace, along with the queen.
• Iceland ends slavery.
• Short-lived Almoravid reconquest of Coimbra (Portugal).

By topic

Education

• May 3 – Merton Priory (Thomas Becket School) is consecrated.

Technology

• The earliest use of a compass for navigational purposes is recorded.

Births

• Humphrey II of Toron, Constable of Jerusalem

Deaths

• April 16 – Saint Magnus, Earl of Orkney (executed)
• December 9 – Gertrud of Brunswick, Markgräfin of Meißen
• Anselm of Laon, French theologian
• Ivo of Chartres, French canon lawyer (b. 1040)
• Bertrade de Montfort, wife of Fulk IV of Anjou and Philip I of France
• Li Zhiyi, Chinese poet