1139

• 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

• Duke of Lower Lorraine.^[3][4][5]
• excommunicated by Pope Innocent II.^[6][7]
• 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
  • By the
    Prince of Capua.^[13][14][15]
  • Bishop of Bragança, to confirm the independence.^[16][17]

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

Religion

• April – Second Council of the Lateran: The Anacletus schism is settled, and priestly celibacy is made mandatory within the Catholic Church.^[18][19][20]
• Armenian Catholicos Gregory III and marks a symbolic beginning for Armenian-Latin ecclesiastic high-level contacts.^[21][22]

• June 3 – Conon of Naso, Basilian abbot (d. 1236)^{[citation needed]}
• June 16 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155)^[23][24]
• Agnes II – abbess and artist (d. 1203)

Deaths

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

References