1119

Events 

 By area 
 Asia 
 June 28 – Battle of Ager Sanguinis: Ilghazi, the ruler of Aleppo, wipes out a Crusader army from the Principality of Antioch.
 August 14 – Battle of Hab: Baldwin II of Jerusalem's Crusaders defeat Ilghazi's army, saving Antioch.

 Europe 
 August 20 – Battle of Bremule: Henry I of England routs Louis VI.
 September 19 – Severe Earthquake in Gloucestershire & Warwickshire, England.
 Robert Bruce, 1st Lord of Cleveland and Annandale, grants and confirms the church of St. Hilda of Middleburg (Middlesbrough) to Whitby.

 By topic 
 Religion 
 February 2 – Pope Callixtus II succeeds Pope Gelasius II as the 162nd pope.
 Knights Templar Founded by Hugh de Payns.
 Councils of Toulouse and Reims. 
 The archbishop of Tarragona, Oleguer Bonestruga, preaches about a Crusade against the Moors in Catalonia.
 In Toulouse, condemnation by the Church of the Petrobrusian heresy.

 Technology 
 In his Pingzhou Table Talks published in this year, the Song Dynasty Chinese writer Zhu Yu writes of the earliest known use of separate hull compartments in ships.
 Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.

 Births 
 July 7 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
 Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1176)

 Deaths 
 January 24 – Pope Gelasius II
 July 17 – Baldwin VII of Flanders
 Alan IV, Duke of Brittany
 Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch
 Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick

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