Events

• July 18 - Baldwin I becomes King of Jerusalem.
• August 5 — Henry I becomes King of England.
• King Henry I proclaims the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of a constitution.
• Baldwin of Bourcq becomes Count of Edessa.
• Dagobert of Pisa becomes Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
• Bohemund I of Antioch is captured by the Danishmends at the Battle of Melitene, leaving Tancred as regent of the Principality of Antioch.
• The cities of Kalmar, Kungälv, and Varberg, Sweden are chartered.
• In Iceland, the Althing decides that the laws should be transferred to a written form.
• Checkers is invented (approximate date).
• The Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture rises (approximate date).
• Oraibi becomes and remains the first and oldest populated settlement in the USA and what is now Arizona.
• The city of Cusco, Peru is founded.
• The Liao Dynasty crushes the Zubu and takes their khan prisoner.
• Song Dynasty China's population reaches roughly 100 million.
• In the Song Dynasty capital of Kaifeng, the number of registered people within the walls is 1,050,000; the army stationed there boosts the overall populace to some 1.4 million people.
• Genoa, Venice and Pisa gain trading privileges in return for their service in the Crusades.

  Births

• May 23 — Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
• Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (d. 1134)
• Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1148)

Deaths