1132 CE

Rievaulx Abbey is founded by the Cistercian order, near Helmsley in Yorkshire. A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000 houses and forcing many to flee to the nearby hills. Due to large fires as this, the government installs an effective fire fighting force for the city. Items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting are temporarily exempted from taxation, 120 tons of rice are distributed among the poor. The government suspends the housing rent requirement of the city's residents. Fountains Abbey soon to join the Cistercian order, is founded near Ripon in Yorkshire.

In the 1130s, the 12th century.

Conflict & Security

  • July 24 – Battle of Nocera: Rebel Normans under Count Ranulf II defeat the Sicilian forces, led by King Roger II. Seven hundred knights are captured, and Roger is forced to retreat to Salerno.source
  • The Southern Song court establishes the first permanent standing navy, with the headquarters of the Chinese admiralty based at Dinghai.source
  • Summer – Conchobhair O Brian of Thomond makes a marauding raid on Uí Maine and besieges Galway.Irelandsource

Religion & Belief

  • March 5 – Rievaulx Abbey is founded by the Cistercian order, near Helmsley in Yorkshire.source
  • December 27 – Fountains Abbey soon to join the Cistercian order, is founded near Ripon in Yorkshire.source
  • Malachy is appointed archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, to impose the Roman liturgy on the independent Irish Church.source
  • Diarmait Mac Murchada has the abbey of Kildare in Ireland burned, and the abbess raped. He becomes king of the province of Leinster.source
  • Basingwerk Abbey originally Benedictine, and later Cistercian, is founded near Holywell in Wales.source
  • Summer – Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk governor (atabeg) of Aleppo and Mosul, marches on Baghdad (the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate), to add it to his dominions. He is defeated by the forces of Caliph Al-Mustarshid, near Tikrit (modern Iraq). Zengi flees and escapes, with the help of Tikrit's governor Najm ad-Din Ayyub (the father of Saladin), who conveys him across the River Tigris.source
  • Malachy, Bishop of Down and of Connor, is appointed Archbishop of Armagh.Irelandsource

Technology & Infrastructure

  • Barnwell Castle is erected in Northamptonshire.source

Disasters & Accidents

  • June – A fire breaks out in the Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13,000 houses and forcing many to flee to the nearby hills. Due to large fires as this, the government installs an effective fire fighting force for the city. Items such as bamboo, planks, and rush-matting are temporarily exempted from taxation, 120 tons of rice are distributed among the poor. The government suspends the housing rent requirement of the city's residents.source

Births

  • February 2 – William of Norwich, English martyr (died 1144)source
  • April 21 – Sancho VI (the Wise), king of Navarre (died 1194)source
  • Ephraim of Bonn, German Jewish rabbi and writer (died 1196)source
  • Andronikos Kontostephanos, Byzantine aristocrat (or 1133)source
  • Vladimir III Mstislavich, Kievan Grand Prince (died 1171)source
  • Rhys ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Deheubarth (died 1197)source
  • Philip of France, French prince and archdeacon (died 1160)source
  • Maurice II de Craon, Norman nobleman and knight (died 1196)source

Deaths

  • February 9 – Maredudd ap Bleddyn, king of Powys (born 1047)source
  • March 26 – Geoffrey of Vendôme, French abbot (born 1070)source
  • April 1 – Hugh of Châteauneuf, bishop of Grenoble (born 1053)source
  • April 14 – Mstislav I (the Great), Kievan Grand Prince (born 1076)source
  • June 6 – Taj al-Muluk Buri, Seljuk governor and regentsource
  • October 26 – Floris the Black, Dutch count of Hollandsource
  • Hugh III of Le Puiset, French nobleman and crusadersource
  • Conrad von Plötzkau, margrave of the Northern Marchsource
  • William of Zardana (or Saône), French nobleman (or 1133)source
  • Conchobhar Ua Flaithbheartaigh, king of Iar ConnachtIrelandsource