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Year 1107 (MCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

England

• August 11 – The Investiture Controversy is resolved, by the reconciliation of King Henry I and Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury and the mass consecration of bishops by Anselm at the royal Palace of Westminster in London: William Giffard to Winchester, Roger to Salisbury, Reynelm to Hereford, William Warelwast to Exeter and Urban to Llandaff. Roger of Salisbury is also appointed Justiciar in this year.

Europe

• October – The army of Bohemond of Tarente lands in Dyrrachium, to try to conquer the Byzantine Empire.
• Autumn – The Norwegian king Sigurd the Crusader sails to England, on the first stage of the Norwegian Crusade to Palestine (the first European king to support the Crusaders).
• November – The Siege of Dyrrhachium by Bohemond I of Antioch begins.
• Saracen pirates raid the Benedictine monastery of Saint Honorat, on the Lérins Islands .

Levant

• Emir Fadl ibn Rabi'ah is expelled by Toghtekin, ruler (atabeg) of Damascus in Syria (approximate date).

Asia

• August 9 – Emperor Horikawa dies after a 20-year reign and is succeeded by his 4-year-old son Toba as emperor of Japan.

By topic

Commerce

• Chinese authorities print paper money in three colors to thwart counterfeiting (approxomate date).

Literature

• Emperor Hui Zong writes his Treatise on Tea, the most detailed description of the Song sophisticated style of tea ceremony.

Births

• June 12 – Gao Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1187)
• Enrico Dandolo, doge of Venice (d.1205)

Deaths

• January 8 – Edgar (the Valiant), king of Scotland
• April 12 – Burchard (or Burkart), bishop of Basel
• August 9 – Horikawa, emperor of Japan (b. 1079)
• September 26 – Maurice, bishop of London
• Changlu Zongze, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk
• Cheng Yi, Chinese neo-confusian philosopher (b. 1033)
• Kilij Arslan I, sultan of the Sultanate of Rum (b. 1079)
• Mi Fu, Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher (b. 1051)
• Robert Fitzhamon, Norman warrior and nobleman
• Roger Bigod, Norman knight and nobleman

References

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 116–117. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. ^ Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1066–1154: A History of the Anglo-Norman Church. New York: Longman. pp. 78–79. ISBN 0-582-50236-5.
3. Hollister, C. Warren; Frost, Amanda Clark, eds. (2001). Henry I. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. pp. 209–210. ISBN 0-300-08858-2.
4. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
5. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 58–60. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
6. Unité mixte de recherche 5648--Histoire et archéologie des mondes chrétiens et musulmans médiévaux. Pays d'Islam et monde latin, Xe-XIIIe siècle: textes et documents. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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