1116

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	11th century – 12th century – 13th century
Decades:	1080s  1090s  1100s  – 1110s –  1120s  1130s  1140s
Years:	1113 1114 1115 – 1116 – 1117 1118 1119

1116 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1116 MCXVI
Ab urbe condita	1869
Armenian calendar	565 ԹՎ ՇԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	5866
Balinese saka calendar	1037–1038
Bengali calendar	523
Berber calendar	2066
English Regnal year	16 Hen. 1 – 17 Hen. 1
Buddhist calendar	1660
Burmese calendar	478
Byzantine calendar	6624–6625
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3812 or 3752     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3813 or 3753
Coptic calendar	832–833
Discordian calendar	2282
Ethiopian calendar	1108–1109
Hebrew calendar	4876–4877
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1172–1173
- Shaka Samvat	1037–1038
- Kali Yuga	4216–4217
Holocene calendar	11116
Igbo calendar	116–117
Iranian calendar	494–495
Islamic calendar	509–510
Japanese calendar	Eikyū 4 (永久４年)
Javanese calendar	1021–1022
Julian calendar	1116 MCXVI
Korean calendar	3449
Minguo calendar	796 before ROC 民前796年
Nanakshahi calendar	−352
Seleucid era	1427/1428 AG
Thai solar calendar	1658–1659
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1242 or 861 or 89     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1243 or 862 or 90

1116 (MCXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1116th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 116th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 12th century, and the 7th year of the 1110s decade. As of the start of 1116, the Gregorian calendar was 7 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

By area

Africa

• Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins an invasion of Egypt.
• The Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, Ali ibn Yahya, takes over the independent island of Jerba, then acting as an independent piratical republic.

Americas

• The Aztecs leave Aztlán, searching for the site of what will eventually become Tenochtitlán (later Mexico City).

Europe

• The Portuguese, under the leadership of countess Theresa take two Galician cities, Tui and Ourense. In reply, the sister of Countess Theresa, Queen Urraca of Leon and Castile, attacks Portugal.
• Almoravid troops take over the Balearic islands whose Muslim king had been severely weakened by Pisan and Catalan raiders.

By topic

Arts and technology

• The modern book of separate pages stitched together is invented in China.
• Construction starts on the Chennakesava Temple in India.
• Aak music is introduced to the Korean court by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty.

Births

• Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (d. 1173)

Deaths

• February 3 – Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
• February 25 – Robert of Arbrissel, a preacher and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault (b. c. 1045)