1100: Encyclopedia - 1100

1100

1100 - Events

• William II of England dies in a hunting accident - Henry I becomes King of England
• King Henry I proclaims the Charter of Liberties, one of the first examples of a constitution.
• Baldwin I becomes King of Jerusalem.
• Baldwin of Bourcq becomes Count of Edessa.
• Dagobert of Pisa becomes Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
• Bohemund I of Antioch is captured by the Danishmends, leaving Tancred as regent of the Principality of Antioch.
• The cities of Kalmar, Kungälv, and Varberg, Sweden are chartered.
• In Iceland, Althing decides that the laws should be transferred to a written form
• Approximate date of the invention of checkers.
• Approximate date of the rise of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture.

1100 - Births

• May 23 - Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
• Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (died 1134)
• Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1148)

1100 - Deaths

• January 8 - Antipope Clement III
• February 23 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1077)
• July 18 - Godfrey of Bouillon, King of Jerusalem
• August 2 - William II of England
• September 16 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler
• October 13 - Count Guy I of Ponthieu.
• December 22 - Duke Bretislav II of Bohemia

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