1139

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1139 in various calendarsGregorian calendar| 1139
MCXXXIX

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Ab urbe condita| 1892
Armenian calendar| 588
ԹՎ ՇՁԸ
Assyrian calendar| 5889
Balinese saka calendar| 1060–1061
Bengali calendar| 545–546
Berber calendar| 2089
English Regnal year| 4 Ste. 1 – 5 Ste. 1
Buddhist calendar| 1683
Burmese calendar| 501
Byzantine calendar| 6647–6648
Chinese calendar| 戊午年 (Earth Horse)
3836 or 3629
— to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
3837 or 3630
Coptic calendar| 855–856
Discordian calendar| 2305
Ethiopian calendar| 1131–1132
Hebrew calendar| 4899–4900
Hindu calendars|
\- Vikram Samvat| 1195–1196
\- Shaka Samvat| 1060–1061
\- Kali Yuga| 4239–4240
Holocene calendar| 11139
Igbo calendar| 139–140
Iranian calendar| 517–518
Islamic calendar| 533–534
Japanese calendar| Hōen 5
(保延５年)
Javanese calendar| 1045–1046
Julian calendar| 1139
MCXXXIX
Korean calendar| 3472
Minguo calendar| 773 before ROC
民前773年
Nanakshahi calendar| −329
Seleucid era| 1450/1451 AG
Thai solar calendar| 1681–1682
Tibetan calendar| ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Earth-Horse)
1265 or 884 or 112
— to —
ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Earth-Sheep)
1266 or 885 or 113

Year 1139 (MCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

## Events

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#### Asia

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* July 8 or August 21 – Jin–Song Wars – Battle of Yancheng: Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu.[1]
* September 30 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing great devastation and killing 300,000 people.[2]

#### Europe

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* January 25 – Godfrey II, Count of Louvain becomes Duke of Lower Lorraine.[3][4][5]
* April 8 – Second Council of the Lateran: Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Pope Innocent II.[6][7]
* April 9 – The Treaty of Durham is signed, between King Stephen of England and David I of Scotland.[8][9][10]
* July 22 – Pope Innocent II, invading the Kingdom of Sicily, is ambushed at Galluccio and taken prisoner.[11][12]
* July 25
* Treaty of Mignano: Pope Innocent II proclaims Roger II of Sicily as King of Sicily, Duke of Apulia and Prince of Capua.[13][14][15]
* Battle of Ourique: The independence of Portugal from the Kingdom of León is declared after the Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques. He then becomes Afonso I, King of Portugal, after calling the first assembly of the Estates-General of Portugal at Lamego, where he is given the Crown from the Bishop of Bragança, to confirm the independence.[16][17]

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#### Education

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* King's School, Pontefract, in England is founded.

#### Religion

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* April – Second Council of the Lateran: The Anacletus schism is settled, and priestly celibacy is made mandatory within the Catholic Church.[18][19][20]
* November – Alberic of Ostia, papal legate to Outremer, convenes a legatine council in the cathedral of Antioch to examine the conduct of the Latin patriarch. The council is also attended by the Armenian Catholicos Gregory III and marks a symbolic beginning for Armenian-Latin ecclesiastic high-level contacts.[21][22]

## Births

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* June 16 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)[23][24]
* Agnes II – abbess and artist (d. 1203)
* Conon of Naso, Basilian abbot (d. 1236)[25]

## Deaths

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* January 25 – Godfrey I, Count of Louvain and Duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey VI)[26][27][28]
* February 18 – Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)[29][30]
* October 20 – Henry X, Duke of Bavaria[31][32]
* December – Roger of Salisbury, English bishop[33][34][35]
* Empress Xing of China (b. 1106)[36]

## References

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4. ^ Avonds, Piet (2016) [2001]. "Brabant, Duchy of". In Jeep, John M. (ed.). Routledge Revivals: Medieval Germany (2001): An Encyclopedia. New York and London: Taylor & Francis. p. 72\. ISBN 9781351665407.
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29. ^ Dimnik, M. (2011). "The dynastic rivalry for Kursk (1054 to the 1150s)". Сіверщина в історії України. 4: 94. ISSN 2218-4805. "On 18 February 1139 Yaropolk Vladimirovich died in Kiev and was succeeded by his brother Vyacheslav"
30. ^ Martin, Janet (2006). "Calculating Seniority and the Contests for Succession in Kievan Rus'". Russian History. 33 (2/4): 267–281\. doi:10.1163/187633106X00168. ISSN 0094-288X. JSTOR 24664444. "After Monomakh's death, his sons, Mstislav (1125-1132) and Iaropolk (1132-1139), held the throne"
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