1131

This article is about the year 1131.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1100s  1110s  1120s  – 1130s –  1140s  1150s  1160s
Years:	1128 1129 1130 – 1131 – 1132 1133 1134

1131 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Art and literature

1131 in poetry

1131 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1131 MCXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1884
Armenian calendar	580 ԹՎ ՇՁ
Assyrian calendar	5881
Bengali calendar	538
Berber calendar	2081
English Regnal year	31 Hen. 1 – 32 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1675
Burmese calendar	493
Byzantine calendar	6639–6640
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3827 or 3767     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3828 or 3768
Coptic calendar	847–848
Discordian calendar	2297
Ethiopian calendar	1123–1124
Hebrew calendar	4891–4892
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1187–1188
- Shaka Samvat	1053–1054
- Kali Yuga	4232–4233
Holocene calendar	11131
Igbo calendar	131–132
Iranian calendar	509–510
Islamic calendar	525–526
Japanese calendar	Daiji 6 / Tenshō 1 (天承元年)
Julian calendar	1131 MCXXXI
Korean calendar	3464
Minguo calendar	781 before ROC 民前781年
Seleucid era	1442/1443 AG
Thai solar calendar	1673–1674

Year 1131 (MCXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Asia

• Fulk of Anjou and Melisende become King and Queen of Jerusalem.

Europe

• Ramon Berenguer IV becomes Count of Barcelona.
• Between 1131 and 1136 – Theotokos of Vladimir arrives in Kiev.
• The knights Templar found their first stronghold in the kingdom of Aragon.

By topic

Arts and culture

• Construction begins on the Beisi Pagoda in China (completed in 1162).

Religion

• May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded.
• Council of Rheims.
• Alberich becomes Archdeacon of Reims.

Births

• January 14 – King Valdemar I of Denmark (d. 1182)

Deaths

• January 7 – Duke Canute Lavard of Schleswig and Holstein and ruler of the Obotrite confederation, saint (b. 1096)
• March 1 – King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
• April 30 – Saint Adjutor
• August 21 – King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
• December 4 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)
• Alger of Liège, French monk at Cluny (b. 1055)
• Bohemund II of Antioch (b. 1108)
• Gaston IV of Béarn
• Joscelin I, Count of Edessa
• Peter the Hermit, French priest and crusader
• Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona (b. 1082)